waynelee3d, please try opening wp-config.php & changing wp_debug from ‘false’ to ‘true’ & then trying to update a plugin again. This is a security risk, so please change it back when you’ve finished copying any errors generated, & pasting it back to your reply.
If you’re caching your sites, please clear the cache, both on your server & in your browser. Since I don’t know if you are or if so, which caching plugin you’re running, I cannot be more specific regarding instructions.
Next, please also temporarily deactivate all plugins (you can do this via your hosting provider’s file manager or FTP) & change the plugins folder name to plugins1 or plugins.old or similar. Please try updating a plugin & see if this has any effect. Since we’re doing some testing here, please try updating just 1 plugin or theme at a time.
If it does, then you’ll need to rename the plugins folder back to the original name, but open it & rename all the plugin folders inside except one by adding a 1 or a .old to the end of the names. I’d suggest leaving something like Akismet alone, since it’s basically core & therefore unlikely to interfere w/WordPress’s functionality. If that still works, rename each plugin folder, logging in after each rename, until you can’t, at which time we’ve found the culprit.
If that does not work, please try deactivating your theme temporarily by renaming your theme folder as above. It wil break your homepage, (fair warning), but if you can update a plugin or theme, then it indicates that the theme is problematic.
Please let us know what plugins you’re running.
Lastly, if all else fails, I can provide a staging area on my server to test functionality. Clearly, if you can update plugins while on my server, then it’s an issue w/your host.
