Title: PLugin won’t activate Last modified: January 23, 2026 --- # PLugin won’t activate * Resolved [mattgivertz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgivertz/) * (@mattgivertz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/) * Hi * I’ve been having some issues with posts and to troubleshoot i removed the plugin which seemed to resolve the issue but to verify this plugin is the problem I re-installed and made sure to activate at the site level. The message says the plugin is activated but it doesn’t show as active and it’s not in the dashboard. * I went to myphpadmin to check the table we created OK as we had an issue with this previously and it is there but no records have been added. * I’ve remarked out the create table and indexes sections from activation php file and still not working so the only lines left are add_option(‘postratings_image’,‘ stars’ ); add_option(‘postratings_max’, ‘5’ ); add_option(‘postratings_template_vote’,‘% RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE% (**%RATINGS_USERS%** ‘.__(‘votes’, ‘wp-postratings’).__(‘,’,‘ wp-postratings’).’ ‘.__(‘average’, ‘wp-postratings’).’: **%RATINGS_AVERAGE%**‘. __(‘out of’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ %RATINGS_MAX%)
%RATINGS_TEXT%’ ); add_option(‘ postratings_template_text’, ‘%RATINGS_IMAGES% (_**%RATINGS\_USERS%** ‘.\_\_(‘ votes’, ‘wp-postratings’).\_\_(‘,’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ ‘.\_\_(‘average’, ‘wp- postratings’).’: **%RATINGS\_AVERAGE%** ‘.\_\_(‘out of’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ % RATINGS\_MAX%’.\_\_(‘,’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ **‘.\_\_(‘rated’, ‘wp-postratings’).’**_)’); add_option(‘postratings_template_none’, ‘%RATINGS_IMAGES_VOTE% (‘.__(‘No Ratings Yet’, ‘wp-postratings’).’)
%RATINGS_TEXT%’ ); // Database Upgrade For WP- PostRatings 1.02 add_option(‘postratings_logging_method’, ‘3’ ); add_option(‘ postratings_allowtorate’, ‘2’ ); // Database Uprade For WP-PostRatings 1.04 // maybe_add_column($wpdb->ratings, ‘rating_userid’, “ALTER TABLE $wpdb->ratings ADD rating_userid INT( 10 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0’;”); // Database Uprade For WP- PostRatings 1.05 add_option(‘postratings_ratingstext’, array(__(‘1 Star’, ‘wp- postratings’), __(‘2 Stars’, ‘wp-postratings’), __(‘3 Stars’, ‘wp-postratings’), __(‘4 Stars’, ‘wp-postratings’), __(‘5 Stars’, ‘wp-postratings’)) ); add_option(‘ postratings_template_highestrated’, ‘ - [%POST_TITLE%](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/%POST_URL%?output_format=md)% RATINGS_IMAGES% (%RATINGS_AVERAGE% ‘.__(‘out of’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ %RATINGS_MAX%) - ‘ ); // Database Upgrade For WP-PostRatings 1.11 add_option(‘postratings_ajax_style’, array(‘loading’ => 1, ‘fading’ => 1) ); // Database Upgrade For WP-PostRatings 1.20 add_option(‘postratings_ratingsvalue’, array(1,2,3,4,5) ); add_option(‘ postratings_customrating’, 0 ); add_option(‘postratings_template_permission’,‘% RATINGS_IMAGES% (_**%RATINGS\_USERS%** ‘.\_\_(‘votes’, ‘wp-postratings’).\_\_(‘,’,‘ wp-postratings’).’ ‘.\_\_(‘average’, ‘wp-postratings’).’: **%RATINGS\_AVERAGE%**‘.\_\_(‘ out of’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ %RATINGS\_MAX%_)
_‘.\_\_(‘You need to be a registered member to rate this.’, ‘wp-postratings’).’_‘ ); // Database Upgrade For WP-PostRatings 1.30 add_option(‘postratings_template_mostrated’, ‘ - [%POST_TITLE%](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/%POST_URL%?output_format=md)–% RATINGS_USERS% ‘.__(‘votes’, ‘wp-postratings’).’ - ‘ ); - There are no entries in the database. - Please can you let me have the sql to create these entries as I suspect this maybe the issue and I can then run manually on myphp - Thanks Matt * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-wont-activate-41%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/) * (@gamerz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12963032) * The table is created when you activate it per site? But there are no entries when you rate? What entries are you referring to? * Thread Starter [mattgivertz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgivertz/) * (@mattgivertz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12968066) * Sorry for the delay in getting back to you * So the plugins has been installed and I’m trying to activate at the site level. The response is plugins activated but it doesn’t appear in the dashboard. * I thought the options statements would create table entries but maybe not. * I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled but plugin refuses to activate and appear in the dashboard. I am not activating at the network level as previous issue was because I did. * Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/) * (@gamerz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12968641) * Is the plugin in the individual site plugin folder? If it fails to activate, it should throw an error though. * Thread Starter [mattgivertz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgivertz/) * (@mattgivertz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12969840) * Yes it is. I’ve checked error logs but the only thing I see is a php notice saying the plugin activated * Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/) * (@gamerz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12969870) * Weird I am not sure what’s wrong with it. I have no been using MS for years and the MS code was not touched for years. I will probably wait for more data for other people. * Maybe consider using another plugin? * Thread Starter [mattgivertz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgivertz/) * (@mattgivertz) * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12971944) * This has been bizzare but managed to get it to install. I have no idea what was going on but I removed it because blog postd were only being displayed to logged in users. * I had to remove the plugin to resolve the issue and wanted to reinstate it to verify the issue. * I have got everything working and am wondering if it was a setting somewhere. Anyway I’ve made sure that the shortcode is only on the page I want rated * Thanks for the help Matt Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘PLugin won’t activate’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-postratings/assets/icon.svg?rev=978014) * [WP-PostRatings](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-postratings/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-postratings/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-postratings/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-postratings/reviews/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [mattgivertz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattgivertz/) * Last activity: [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-41/#post-12971944) * Status: resolved