Title: Cannot load plugins in admin panel Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Cannot load plugins in admin panel * [charmedattic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charmedattic/) * (@charmedattic) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-load-plugins-in-admin-panel/) * Hi, * I can’t load the plugin page (…wp-admin/plugin.php) in the admin left panel. It will take a long time to load and eventually go to a white screen. When I right click and view source, this is what I get: * * It happened the same for my themes admin page when I first installed WP 2.9.2, hence I downgraded to WP 2.8.6 .It works okay thereafter for the theme but still persists for plugin. * Is it due to incompatibility to my PHP version? * Here’s my server specs: PHP Version 5.2.0 Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) MySQL version 5.0.22 * Please help, thank you. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-load-plugins-in-admin-panel/#post-1506487) * You meet all of the requirements, but you may have caused some problems when you downgraded. Try upgrading to 2.9.2 again, and we’ll work from there. * Thread Starter [charmedattic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charmedattic/) * (@charmedattic) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-load-plugins-in-admin-panel/#post-1506512) * Actually, I installed the WordPress 2.8.6 version in the same database. The 2.9.2 version is still active but the pages take a long time to load. Most of the time, this message will appear on the bottom of the frame (Waiting for [http://…](http://…);./ wp-admin/plugins.php..) A white screen eventually pops. * Here’s a breakdown of which features in admin panel that fail to load: * Version 2.9.2 – Appearance-> Themes – Appearance-> Add New Themes – Plugins - > Installed * Version 2.8.6 – Plugins -> Installed * Is it due to script incompatibility? Kinda lost looking at the scripts. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-load-plugins-in-admin-panel/#post-1506516) * Try [manually deactivating all of your plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause. * Thread Starter [charmedattic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charmedattic/) * (@charmedattic) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-load-plugins-in-admin-panel/#post-1506521) * I followed the manual steps. I created an empty plugins folder and it can load the admin page (plugins.php). The moment I upload a plugin (via backend) and refresh the page, it’ll refuse to load the admin page. Even the default plugins( askimet and hello.php) doesn’t work. * What’s the purpose of the index.php that comes default in the plugins folder? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Cannot load plugins in admin panel’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [admin-panel](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-panel/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [plugin incompatibility](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-incompatibility/) * [white page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/white-page/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [charmedattic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charmedattic/) * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-load-plugins-in-admin-panel/#post-1506521) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics