Title: Blank plugins page  (wp-admin/plugins.php) in Site Admin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Blank plugins page (wp-admin/plugins.php) in Site Admin

 *  [skibohemen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skibohemen/)
 * (@skibohemen)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/)
 * My plugins page suddenly turned up completely blank. WP runs on a Fedora box 
   I have full access to, and there are no odd messages in neither the access nor
   the error log of Apache.
 * The blog front on www2.skiforeningen.no appears to be ok and all the other parts
   of the Admin panel work as before.
 * How should I go along debug this? Since I have file system access, I could probably
   run PHP on the file? Or? I am not a PHP hacker.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-552793)
 * Did you recently add a plugin or do a mod?
    If so, delete or deactivate the plugin
   and check. Also, it could be conflicting with a plugin already installed.
 *  [Andrew Ozz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/azaozz/)
 * (@azaozz)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-552814)
 * Also make sure there’s no an empty index.php or index.html file in there…
 *  Thread Starter [skibohemen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skibohemen/)
 * (@skibohemen)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-552852)
 * I did not add any plugins recently, I have only a few installed. And there is
   no empty index.php or index.html.
 * More strange, the HTTP GET request for /wp-admin/plugins.php never even shows
   up in the access_log or error_log of Apache! I have reloaded the page numerous
   times, emptied the browser caches and even tried different browsers.
 * I also ran a “diff” on the installed plugins.php and plugins.php in the 2.1.3
   dist. There were no differences, but just to make sure, I copied the file in 
   again from the distribution. Did not help.
 * To see more under the hood of the browser, I accessed the file through the Unix
   command line browser “lynx”. The browser reports “Unexepected network error” 
   when I try to access the file.
 * I also made a copy of the file with a different name and accessed it as “foo.
   php”. No help.
 * I am really stuck here.
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-552865)
 * There’s been an outbreak of blank, or partly blank admin pages, including:
 * [options-reading.php](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/113915)
    [plugins.php](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/114060)
 *  Thread Starter [skibohemen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skibohemen/)
 * (@skibohemen)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-552947)
 * Yes, after some searching I see that others complain about misc admin pages turning
   up blank, not only the wp-admin/plugins.php. But I can’t seem to find a general
   solution to this fuzz.
 * As someone suggested, renaming the plugins directory made the page appear with
   its default content. However, renaming back again just reintroduced the problem.
 * So I did something else, I completely cleaned the content of the wp-content/plugins
   directory. Now the page appeared with default content.
 * Then I installed hello.php from the 2.1.3 distribution. Now the page turned blank
   again!
 * My conclusion is that the plugins.php exits whenever there is any type of PHP
   content beneath the plugins directory.
 * So why is this happening to me now, and why has it happened to others?
 * All files and directories are chmod-ed to 755/644 respectively, group ownership
   set to the same as the httpd process (“apache”).
 * Btw, the plugins editor is able to run and pick up the files when accessed directly.
 * Anyone who knows the plugins.php code who can think of any reason for this strange
   behaviour?
 *  [bobster234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobster234/)
 * (@bobster234)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-553035)
 * I had the same problem … In my case it was adhesive.php that once deleted allowed
   my plugins page to reappear.
 * Interestingly nothing had changed in my blog software for 2-3 weeks.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-plugins-page-wp-adminpluginsphp-in-site-admin/#post-553035)
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