Title: restoring plugins
Last modified: April 21, 2024

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# restoring plugins

 *  [scottrucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottrucci/)
 * (@scottrucci)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-plugins-3/)
 * Hi. I mistakenly deleted a couple of plugins and I don’t know what they were.
   Now the videos are gone from my website. I can’t find them or find out what they
   were. I was hoping there was some kind of backup/restore function but haven’t
   found it. I’ve restore the site files and database but I guess the plugins aren’t
   contained there. I’ve looked in a lot of the code. I find references in the code
   to things like [Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg ✔️ WordPress Plugin under Test (bloggerpilot.com)](https://bloggerpilot.com/en/ultimate-addons-for-gutenberg/)
   but can’t find that to install. I am not experienced in any of this. Any advice
   is appreciated.
 * PS there may have been a server log that would have helped but due to a user 
   name change there was no log during the time this change took place.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Frestoring-plugins-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-plugins-3/#post-17702880)
 * The plugins on your site are (were) stored in wp-content/plugins. Check that 
   directory on your backup(s).
 *  Thread Starter [scottrucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottrucci/)
 * (@scottrucci)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-plugins-3/#post-17702882)
 * OK great, I’ll check that out. Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [scottrucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottrucci/)
 * (@scottrucci)
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-plugins-3/#post-17702944)
 * Well, sadly, the server company seems to have no backups, I don’t know why. And
   the backup I made does not contain the WP folders b/c I didn’t have privileges
   to access those (I didn’t know they event existed) when I backed up the folders
   via ftp. I was able to restore a backup of the database, but I don’t know if 
   that helps.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-plugins-3/#post-17702958)
 * nope, you’re pretty much out of luck. If you had admin access, there are a number
   of [backup plugins](https://wodpress.org/plugins/search/backup) you could have
   used. And you should have access to wp-content via FTP.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-plugins-3/#post-17702958)
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