Title: Plugins not activating
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugins not activating

 *  [the_ape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_ape/)
 * (@the_ape)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/)
 * If I add a plugin to the plugin folder then try to activate it from the plugins
   page, it does the post and the plugin activate ‘flash’ happens at the top, but
   the pluggin is not activated?
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [chaaban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaaban/)
 * (@chaaban)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/#post-288407)
 * it happen with all plugins or a specific one ?
 *  [robin678](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin678/)
 * (@robin678)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/#post-288573)
 * Same thing, i know that Iimage browser doesnt activate. Can be found from
    [http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/iimage-browser/](http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/iimage-browser/)
 *  [kmakice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmakice/)
 * (@kmakice)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/#post-288614)
 * I’m new to the plugin thing, but I was having no luck getting any plugins to 
   activate. I would click the link next to one in the Plugins page, and I would
   get a notice saying it was activated … but the link wouldn’t change.
 * After some debugging to trace the logic, the problem appears to be a lack of 
   an exit after the header(Location:) call to the response page. I added:
 *  exit;
 * immediately after each of the two redirect lines:
 *  header(‘Location: plugins.php?activate=true’);
    header(‘Location: plugins.php?
   deactivate=true’);
 * in the activate/deactivate if-else statement, creating lines 17 and 24 respectively.
   For whatever reason, the fact that the rest of the page was running seemed to
   be interfering with the ability of the tool to reflect an active plugin. (In 
   the database, it looks like it would retain only the most recent plugin activation
   attempt but it would not be reflected in the list of plugins displayed on the
   page.)
 * I don’t know what other effects this might have, but after day of struggling 
   to get things working, the plugins are now responding.
 *  [andykemp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andykemp/)
 * (@andykemp)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/#post-288622)
 * I am having the same problem on my fresh install of WP2… This fixed it!
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/#post-288623)
 * You can alternately just download the very lastest copy of `plugins.php` rather
   than editing the file:
 * [http://trac.wordpress.org/file/trunk/wp-admin/plugins.php?format=raw](http://trac.wordpress.org/file/trunk/wp-admin/plugins.php?format=raw)

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 * In: [Alpha/Beta/RC](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/)
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 * Last reply from: [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-not-activating-1/#post-288623)
 * Status: not resolved

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