Title: wp_plugin_dir does not work
Last modified: February 10, 2019

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# wp_plugin_dir does not work

 *  [kztab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kztab/)
 * (@kztab)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_plugin_dir-does-not-work-please-help/)
 * Hello,
 * I have installed WP 5.0.3 and checked with PHP 7.3 and 7.2 but I couldn’t make
   the change in wp-config work for WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WP-PLUGIN_URL It just doesn’t
   read any plugins in admin panel and doesn’t let me install any either. Please
   note that I renamed the directory on server to my desired folder name. This is
   the code I wrote in wp-config
 * define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217); . $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’].‘/
   test’ );
    define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217); . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].‘/
   test’ );
 * //define( ‘WP_PLUGIN_DIR’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/test/wp-content/newplugins’ );
   //
   define( ‘WP_PLUGIN_URL’, ‘[http://&#8217](http://&#8217); . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].‘/
   test/wp-content/newplugins’ );
 * I have spent hours but couldn’t find a fix even online. Is this caused by new
   WP version or what? I checked with WP 4.9.9 but same result. Is this PHP 7.x 
   then? Because I have my other websites perfectly working using PHP 5.6 and older
   versions of WP. I need this done to ensure security so please advise.
 * Thank you.
    Tab

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 *  Thread Starter [kztab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kztab/)
 * (@kztab)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_plugin_dir-does-not-work-please-help/#post-11191123)
 * I mistakenly posted 2 lines of code commented, those are not commented in the
   actual wp-config.php file of course.

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