Title: plugin.php won't load
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# plugin.php won't load

 *  [charlottejo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlottejo/)
 * (@charlottejo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pluginphp-wont-load/)
 * I started having this problem yesterday. First, the dashboard would not load 
   at all. When I went to the login page, it had a connection reset error.
 * I eventually got the dashboard back up and running by renaming the plugins folder,
   but when I added it back, even empty, I could log in to the admin panel and access
   everything but I continue to get the connection error messages whenever I try
   to access the plugins page (plugin.php).
 * All of my plugins are deactivated now, and I can’t reactivate any of them.
 * I tried upgrading, then downgrading WordPress, no solution.
 * Any more ideas?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pluginphp-wont-load/#post-2527445)
 * How, exactly, did you carry out the downgrade?
 *  Thread Starter [charlottejo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlottejo/)
 * (@charlottejo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pluginphp-wont-load/#post-2527476)
 * Same way as an upgrade. Replace all the system files, run wp-admin/upgrade.php.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pluginphp-wont-load/#post-2527556)
 * Er… no. You have to restore a pre-upgrade database backup first.
 *  Thread Starter [charlottejo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlottejo/)
 * (@charlottejo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pluginphp-wont-load/#post-2527731)
 * Okay, I tried this:
 * I did a clean install of WordPress, new database and all. When I went into it
   and clicked on “Plugins” I got the exact same error message. What’s going on 
   with this?

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 * [admin.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-php/)
 * [Blank](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blank/)
 * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/)
 * [plugin.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-php/)

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [charlottejo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlottejo/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pluginphp-wont-load/#post-2527731)
 * Status: not resolved

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