Title: cannot activate plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# cannot activate plugins

 *  [organicg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/organicg/)
 * (@organicg)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugins/)
 * I have downloaded several plugins and have transferred them from local site to
   remote site. I can see the content of the plugin being uploaded on my FTP server
   and then showing that it has been uploaded , but none of them are showing up 
   on my blog plugins.!
    can anyone please tell me what could be wrong? I have uploaded
   before with no problem, so I am mystified as to what is going on? thank you,

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugins/#post-673481)
 * One of two possibilities:
 * The wp-content, wp-content/plugins, your specific plugin folder under wp-content/
   plugins needs ‘higher’ permissions such as 777 (see [Changing File Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions)).
 * You are getting the plugin files uploaded incorrectly (into the wrong location).
   For example, a plugin called my-plugin gets put in wp-content/plugins/my-plugin/
   my-plugin folder. That’s one subfolder too many. [[See [Managing Plugins, Installing Plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins)).

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugins/#post-673481)
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