Title: Activate Fails
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Activate Fails

 *  [jemar707](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemar707/)
 * (@jemar707)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-fails/)
 * I was previously using Adsense Manager, no new ads were displaying. I checked
   plugin settings and my original ads didn’t even show up as loaded in the plugin,
   and it wouldn’t allow me to add any. Then I found this plugin to replace and 
   tried to install—it failed. (did not get the notice about deactivating Adsense
   Manager first). After I found those instructions, I deactivated Adsense Manager
   and tried again. No dice. Same thing, server just hangs. Because deactivating
   the old plugin rendered my site useless (nothing loads after first call for an
   ad), I had to reactive Adsense Manager. So now I’m stuck with a plugin that doesn’t
   function, old calls for ads that are working, but I can’t make any changes to
   them or add any new calls for them….and I proposed saving plugin, this one, that
   won’t activate. Help, please…..
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertising-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advertising-manager/)

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 *  Thread Starter [jemar707](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemar707/)
 * (@jemar707)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-fails/#post-5411142)
 * Side note, I did attempt to delete both plugins and start over. but this one 
   still won’t activate. Perhaps something left hanging out there in the database?
 *  Thread Starter [jemar707](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jemar707/)
 * (@jemar707)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-fails/#post-5411354)
 * I have now tried to delete the plugin and am getting the following:
 * Plugin could not be deleted due to an error: Could not fully remove the plugin(
   s) advertising-manager/advertising-manager.php.
 * Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [switzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/switzer/)
 * (@switzer)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-fails/#post-5411375)
 * jemar707: Sorry for the delay here. Can you let me know the versions of WordPress
   and PHP that you are using? Thanks.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [switzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/switzer/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-fails/#post-5411375)
 * Status: not resolved