plugins.php showing blank

  • I installed super-cache today and things went a little haywire so I deleted the plugin folder without following the proper deactivation routine. After that my plugins page shows up blank (or server dropped connection in Safari). So I moved all my plugins to a new folder and WP automatically deactivated everything. The plugins page came back but only a bit, as attempts to install anything show up blank. Out of ideas I grabbed an archive of my database and copied over the active_plugins entry back into the current install. Sure enough the plugins started to work again on the public site but my plugins page is still blank. Anyone had anything like this happen? I’m really hoping I don’t have to do a full reinstall, as the site is using a ton of plugins and I’m worried about losing data.

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  • Hi,

    Have a check with these options:

    -> disable all the plugins and enable them one by one to find out the culprit one.
    -> upgrade your wordpress to the latest version.
    -> remove unwanted code from htaccess file of your domain/blog.

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    Thread Starter rustbucket

    (@rustbucket)

    Thanks Shane, the problem is I can’t actually get into the plugins area via the admin to disable anything. I don’t think it’s a plugin conflict as everything was playing nicely together before wp-super-cache got involved and I ripped it out in the worse way possible (deleted the folder).

    The only reason the plugins are even functioning at this point is because I added them back into the active_plugins row in the database.

    I’m tempted to upgrade but this is a live site and it scares me to have it blow up again after such a late night last night. I think I’m going to install a second WP, feed it the same database and slowly migrate everything over. Then migrate it back to the root when I’m convinced everything is kosher.

    Thread Starter rustbucket

    (@rustbucket)

    Ok, never really did figure out the real reason why this broke, other than the fact that I removed wp-super-cache in the worst way possible. I upgraded from 2.7.1 to 2.8.4 and voila, everything is back to normal.

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