New plugin installations – no folder

  • Resolved klassanov

    (@klassanov)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,
    I have a a running and working WordPress site with a few plugins. But today suddenly I noticed that if I install a new plugin from the wordpress plugin directory (it doesn’t matter which one, I’ve tried with 4 different plugins), I get a 404 js and css errors in the plugin admin page so it is unusable. For example, if I install the Jetpack plugin, I get a 404 error for this file:
    http://prevodilegalizacia.bg/new/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/_inc/build/admin.dops-style.css?ver=4.4.2

    After that I saw that the folder jetpackin plugins directory hasn’t been created at all even though I had no errors during the plugin installation. However, I can see the plugin in the admin menu and I can access its admin page, but it’s not working properly. The same thing is happening with any new plugin I install.

    However the folders of the existing plugins are in the plugin directory and the old plugins are working. I checked the permissions of the folders and I believe they are correct: 0755 for the folders and 0644 for the files.

    I can’t realize why this is happening. The last plugin that I had installed successfully and after that removed was poEdit.

    Please help.
    Thanks.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    First try switching to the twentysixteen theme and deactivating all plugins. Try installing a new plugin that’s not currently in the plugins folder. If it installs correctly within its own folder, then there was some sort of conflict. Switch back to the normal theme, then activate plugins one by one. Try installing another new plugin after each change.

    You can identify a reasonably small plugin and repeatedly install and delete the same one over and over as a testing protocol. When installation fails to create a folder, the last activated entity is the problem.

    If you cannot properly install a plugin under twentysixteen with no other plugins active, you probably need to do a manual reinstall. It’s the same procedure as a manual update, except you download your current version.

    Before going through the entire reinstall, you could try using the moving plugin folder technique, except you would point to the normal plugins folder instead of a new location.

    Thread Starter klassanov

    (@klassanov)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for your advises. I will try it and let you know.

    Thread Starter klassanov

    (@klassanov)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,
    I have waited for few weeks and after that I have updated all the plugins that had available updates and I removed all my X-mas plugins that I had used to decorate my site. So the the problem has been solved this way, I haven’t tested each plugin separately.

    Thanks.

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