Title: plugin will not activate
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# plugin will not activate

 *  Resolved [stbedesantafe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stbedesantafe/)
 * (@stbedesantafe)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/)
 * I loaded from the “ADD NEW” plugin page, but the plugin would never activate.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contest-gallery/)
 * (@contest-gallery)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081556)
 * Hello,
 * have you inserted the shortcode
 * [cg_gallery id=”1″]
 * in the page like in this description?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/installation/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/installation/)
 * Have you created a gallery under “Contest Gallery” in the left WordPress Menu?
 * Best regards
 * Wasiliy
 *  Plugin Author [Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contest-gallery/)
 * (@contest-gallery)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081557)
 * Sorry, maybe i don’t get you.
 * If you can’t activate plugin, plz send me the error message or an image of the
   error.
 * Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [stbedesantafe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stbedesantafe/)
 * (@stbedesantafe)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081559)
 * “Contest Gallery” never appears on my Dashboard menu because it never activates.
   The spinning icon in the browser URL field just keeps spinning. I don’t get an
   error message – nothing happens at all.
 * I do have both WordFence and Sucuri Security. I wonder if one of them is blocking
   the plugin for some reason.
 *  [photons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photons/)
 * (@photons)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081589)
 * I have the same issue before as well!!
 * The spinning icon keeps spinning so I have to close the page.
    Then I check my
   site and the homepage shows blank but with a sentence “Database connection errors…(
   something like that)”. I was shocked and think the plugin crushed my site…. It
   was midnight so I left it until the next day.
 * However the site back to normally & the plugin was be activated & works fine 
   when I check again the next day. (I didn’t do anything after the plugin “crushed”
   my site). So I think it’s may be just my server issue and I didn’t report…
 * Any chance it’s a bug?
 *  Plugin Author [Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contest-gallery/)
 * (@contest-gallery)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081621)
 * No it’s not from plugin.
 *  [photons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photons/)
 * (@photons)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081634)
 * Hi Wasiliy,
    I just try to install your plugin in one of my another website, 
   but can’t activate the plugin like before…. the spinning icon keeps spinning 
   and the page don’t response… please help.
 *  [photons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photons/)
 * (@photons)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081635)
 * Hi Wasiliy, if you don’t mind can I email you (contact@contest-gallery.com) site
   login & password so you can check why the plugin can’t be activated? Thanks so
   much!
 *  [photons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photons/)
 * (@photons)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081636)
 * Sorry for these emails… But the site’s main page encounter this error after I
   waited for the plugin activation.
 * 500 Server Error
 * A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix 
   the problem, then try again.
    URL: [http://www.photonews.ca/challenge/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=contest-gallery%2Findex.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=8d31eaa5fe](http://www.photonews.ca/challenge/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=contest-gallery%2Findex.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=8d31eaa5fe)

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/contest-gallery/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=3510934)
 * [Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/#faq)
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 * 8 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [photons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photons/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-13/#post-7081636)
 * Status: resolved