Comments on: Using WordPress Plugins

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:09:58 +0000

Hi Peter – Let’s see if we can trouble shoot this. A few quick questions:

- when you say you transfered the files to contents > plugins > x, I assume you mean that you transfered them to /wp-content/plugins/ ?

- Can you see them on the plugins page? I’m not clear from your comment whether they are there and not active, or they aren’t visible on the plugins page at all.

- If they are visible, I’m assuming you’ve activated them. If they aren’t visible, then your problem is most likely that they are either in the wrong directory, or the permissions are still not quite right.

By: Peter Knight

Peter Knight — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:56:20 +0000

Hi Kirk – Your podcast on WordPress Plugins is useful and well done. I’m new to WP and am having trouble on this issue.

I had installed WP 2.3.2 then have transferred (FileZilla)
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To contents > plugins > X – They show on my host server as OK, I’ve made sure of the file permissions, 755 for directories, 644 for files – yet…
They do not appear in the wp-plugins administrator, to be activated, so I guess i’m missing something, very simple probably – what? Thank you for your time, this question must be an old one but new to me!