Title: trouble uploading plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# trouble uploading plugins

 *  Resolved [baibaik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baibaik/)
 * (@baibaik)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-uploading-plugins/)
 * I posted earlier about not finding piclens under “plugins”in site admin. I uploaded
   another plugin…..same thing. I am obviously very new to this, I am following 
   the directions as where to upload to. I can see the plugins in my webshell but
   not in my site admin.
    Please help and tell me whatI am doing wrong Thanks Claudia

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-uploading-plugins/#post-717223)
 * Check the folders you unzipped to your hard drive. Sometimes when you unzip the
   folder, there’s a like-named folder inside.
 * For example, the foo plugin is in foo-1.2.zip. You unzip it, and the directory
   structure ends up like this:
 * /foo-1.2
    –/foo
 * If you just upload the /foo-1.2 folder with the /foo folder inside, WP won’t 
   be able to find it. Drill down and upload only the /foo folder. Does this make
   sense?
 *  Thread Starter [baibaik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baibaik/)
 * (@baibaik)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-uploading-plugins/#post-717388)
 * Thank you,jonimueller,but there are no folders in the folders I uploaded. I checked.
   I tried to install another plugin, same story. Could it be a server issue? I 
   am operating on php4. I could change over to php5, but it is a real hussle.
    
   Any other ideas? thanks Claudia
 *  [pedmands](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pedmands/)
 * (@pedmands)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-uploading-plugins/#post-717402)
 * Are the plugins compatible with the version you are running?
 * Make sure you are uploading to the same wp-content/plugins folder as the installing
   of WordPress you are trying to activate the plugins on (if multiple installations
   installed).
 * Make sure you are uploading the entire contents of the plugin into a unique directory(
   kind of what joni said, but make sure subfolders are there too, if any).
 * If I think of anything else I’ll let you know
 *  [boober](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boober/)
 * (@boober)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trouble-uploading-plugins/#post-717405)
 * and sometimes youre not supposed to upload the folder with the plugin at all.
   sometimes its just one .php file that goes directly into the plugin folder.

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