Title: Weird Plugin directory problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Weird Plugin directory problem

 *  [Maryj2007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryj2007/)
 * (@maryj2007)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-plugin-directory-problem/)
 * When I look at my plugin directory (with FTP client) I can see more plugins than
   when my designer looks at the directory. My WP admin plugin page seems to see
   the same list that my designer sees, because the ones that I upload don’t show
   up.
 * What the #^&$*$ is going on??
 * BTW I’ve checked to see whether there are 2 plugin directories, but can only 
   see one.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-plugin-directory-problem/#post-862092)
 * Many times plugins come a “double” or “nested” directory, e.g.
    fancy-plugin 
   1.0.3 and inside there is – readme.txt – licence.txt – fancy-plugin dir
 * Usually you need to upload only the inside dir. Just guessing here…
 * EDIT. Sometimes you need to upload only the *.php file, and the unzipped plugins
   will not show up, of course 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Maryj2007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maryj2007/)
 * (@maryj2007)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-plugin-directory-problem/#post-862127)
 * Hi Moshu -thanks so much for spending time thinking this through with me. I’ve
   taken care of the ‘nested directories’. But that hasn’t changed anything.
    What
   did you mean by uploading only the *.php file? If you did that, would it show
   up or not?
 * I can’t get over the weird thing that I can see more plugins in the directory
   than my designer can. And when I upload plugins, they don’t show up in the admin
   part. When he uploads plugins for me, they do.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-plugin-directory-problem/#post-862133)
 * _What did you mean by uploading only the *.php file? _
 * I have seen cases when although the package was a directory, the plugin itself
   was a single .php file (which was packed together with a readme or something 
   in a folder). And according to their instructions (I know, I am the 1 in million
   who always reads the instructions BEFORE using anything…) you need to upload 
   only the single file to the server.
 * As for the differences between his and your upoads… I give up.

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 * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-plugin-directory-problem/#post-862133)
 * Status: not resolved

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