Help! My WP can't "see" any of my plugins anymore

  • Hey there everybody… okay here goes…

    My website is https://www.antranik.org

    I had a 500 Internal Server Error

    So I contacted my hosting support so they’d fix it…

    They said they did something with the htaccess and that it works now. I went to the site, the front end loaded fine and I said thanks and thought that was good.

    I went to login at wp-admin and couldn’t because I was getting just this one line of text that went something like:
    W3 Total Cache cannot load. Please re-install plugin or remove /home/antranik/public_html/wp-content/db.php.

    So I reinstalled db.php with a fresh copy from w3, that didn’t change anything.

    SO I deleted db.php

    And I got a new message, same thing, but now it says remove object-cache.php

    So I deleted object-cache.php

    I could now login to my wordpress.

    But turns out wordpress can’t SEE any of the plugins anymore, even though the FTP directory shows they are still there.

    I had 28 active plugins.

    What can I do to make the site see them again? Please advise.

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  • Thread Starter Antranik

    (@antranik)

    I just found my wp-content/plugins.bak folder and duplicated the folder and named it “plugins”

    Now wordpress can see my tons of plugins in the list, they are all inactive and i can activate them.

    Have you determined that the plugins are in wp-content/plugins?

    I didn’t notice you say that so I thought it may be useful.

    Also have you tried backing up the plugins, your theme(s), and reinstalling a clean install of the wordpress installation? It’s just a suggestion if you’ve exhausted you options.

    Ah ok, so the folder was renamed.

    Thread Starter Antranik

    (@antranik)

    The plugins folder was not in existence for some reason. Copying plugins.bak to a new folder named plugins, made it work.

    I just reactivated the relevant plugins, all is well now.

    I would love to do a clean install of my theme as well so that blog posts may show properly with MSIE… hopefully one day I will have the balls to do that.

    That’s a pretty nice theme, and it’s always good to have experience with wordpress, well for some jobs. I always thought it was a nice idea anyways. But the sites good. ??

    Hi there

    I am having the same problem. Can’t see my plugins. This is the second time I have installed WP. I lost all my content so I had to start all over. But still no plugins.

    I’ve tried changing the theme. No luck there.
    I can deactivate them and delete them but they don’t pop up on my left sidebar. I’ve tried renaming the files like you did above but it didn’t work for me.

    Can anyone help?

    I have this problem with both my blogs so I must be doing something wrong.

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