Title: Plugin will not activate
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Plugin will not activate

 *  Resolved [morganictrie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morganictrie/)
 * (@morganictrie)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-9/)
 * I have successfully downloaded the Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner
   and Hardening. It is listed in my “Installed Plugins” but when I go to “Activate”
   the whole screen goes white and freezes.
 * Any ideas? I’ve never had this happen with a plugin before.
 * The URL on the frozen screen reads:
 * [http://www.mywedsite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=sucuri-scanner%2Fsucuri.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=a0aa8febfc](http://www.mywedsite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=sucuri-scanner%2Fsucuri.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=a0aa8febfc)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/)

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 *  [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * (@yorman)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-9/#post-6084477)
 * I have seen this behavior before in other plugins, it is rare and it generally
   happens when a code that is already placed in the site is throwing errors, at
   the end I just ignore the blank page and go directly to the dashboard to find
   the plugin already active.
 * The best way to know what is the root of the issue would be to force WordPress
   to display the warning and error messages setting the _“WP\_DEBUG”_ constant [
   1] to _“True”_ and then try to activate the plugin again. Can you make this modification
   and tell me what warnings/errors appear in the page?
 * [1] [https://codex.wordpress.org/WP_DEBUG](https://codex.wordpress.org/WP_DEBUG)
 *  [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * (@yorman)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-9/#post-6084761)
 * [@morganictrie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morganictrie/) I have not
   heard about you in a while, did you find the solution for the issue with the 
   activation of the plugin? If yes then I would like to know what was its cause,
   maybe someone is having the same issues and it would be informative to have more
   information about it. If not then we could reopen this thread and try to troubleshoot
   this error again.
 * I will mark this ticket as resolved for now.

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## Tags

 * [activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activate/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-will-not-activate-9/#post-6084761)
 * Status: resolved