LaurenWilson

my plugins folder is actually set to 777, the others are 755 though.

*plugin updates (not details)

I’ve tried a few different file permissions and nothing has changed. ??

its https://www.tbdowenholland.com

Okay, my web hosts looked into this yesterday.

The permissions are that group and public can both read and execute, owner can read, write and execute. When i try to change it so that all can write, it allows me to tick the box, but will not save the setting.

I still do not have plugins and when i try to download them, I just get this
Unpacking the package…

Installing the plugin…

Could not create directory. /home/sites/tbdowenholland.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/

Plugin install failed

I went ahead and did it how you originally said, It said it had imported the files and I went and changed wpconfig. It hasn’t worked though. My plug ins file still doesn’t work. Completely fresh out of ideas now!

I can import and restore a previous back up to the new database from there-should I just do that? sorry to inundate you-i’m keen to fix it!

I do have it-its just accessed through mysql

RockIT. Here is my Web Tools panel

<img src=”https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3704/10687986554_81142b3a76.jpg&#8221; width=”500″ height=”384″ alt=”Screen shot 2013-11-05 at 11.02.48″>

I have something called php and underneath the icon it says “switch php versions”

I have in my cpanel mySQL databases-I will use that-but there is unfortunately not a phpmyadmin. What can you suggest instead? thanks for spelling it out-i needed it!

Thanks for your help-I’m not very tech savvy at all! I think I may be able to access phpMyAdmin via my CPanel. I haven’t used it before though and don’t understand. How would I create a second database? I also don’t really understand how to change the database entry in wp-config. Obviously I don’t want to make things worse!

Do you think that this would definitely restore my plugins file?

Thanks again-i do really appreciate this!

It is literally just a page of code. I don’t really understand what it contains-starts like this…

— MySQL dump 10.13 Distrib 5.5.33, for Linux (x86_64)
—
— Host: localhost Database: cl49-a-wordp-1zz
— ——————————————————
— Server version 5.5.31

/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=’+00:00′ */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE=’NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO’ */;
/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;

Does this look like the file that you suggested?

Seriously, I can’t even upload new plugins now? The back up program that I had has done it in the wrong format and my web hosts don’t have one at all. Have no idea what to do.