Title: Plugins won’t activate
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# Plugins won’t activate

 *  [robvdl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robvdl/)
 * (@robvdl)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-wont-activate/)
 * Argh, had to fix my last problem by hacking wp-comment-post.php file, it simply
   would not listen to what I told it about setting Comment Moderation to “none”,
   it just would not work, so I changed:
    wp-comments-post.php: if(check_comment(
   $author, $email, $url, $comment, $user_ip)) { $approved = 1; } else { $approved
   = 0; } $approved = 1; // added Now, More trouble this time 🙁 This time plugins
   just will NOT activate, it says it is activated, but the state does not change,
   and the plugin will not work, so I assume it is not activated. I only want to
   activate the search highlight plugin, but it won’t. Can it be activated by hand?
   Database setting, or change something in the source file? I have made sure every
   wordpress file is writeable, but it still will not activate. [http://robvdl.sitharus.com/test.php](http://robvdl.sitharus.com/test.php)

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-wont-activate/#post-83908)
 * Have you done an install into 2 directories ?
    If so, somewhere a path setting
   is wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [robvdl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robvdl/)
 * (@robvdl)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-wont-activate/#post-83945)
 * It’s not in two directories, but I just managed to get the guy that handles the
   server to Upgrade to PHP 5.0.1.
    I have moved the blog back to my index.php page,
   and everything works except for the plugin is not activated. [http://robvdl.sitharus.com](http://robvdl.sitharus.com)
   But don’t worry, I have a contract to complete in the next 3 weeks, so I won’t
   touch the blog for a while. So long it is up, and it is functional, search highlight
   is only a fancy addon, but doesn’t stop it from working. so leave it as-is for
   now.

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 * Last reply from: [robvdl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robvdl/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-wont-activate/#post-83945)
 * Status: not resolved

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