Title: Can not activate plugins
Last modified: February 2, 2017

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# Can not activate plugins

 *  Resolved [japayton42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpaytoncfd/)
 * (@jpaytoncfd)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/)
 * I ran into an issue today while updating some plugins. 3 of the 4 updates went
   fine. The 4th ran into an issue. There was no error but it did not activate. 
   It was the newsletter plugin. I went back to the plugin page and the plugin did
   update but did not activate. I clicked activate and the page refreshed and the
   message at the top says Plugin Activated.
 * I tried some other plugins too, I can not activate or deactivate any plugins.
   I can delete, I can edit and make posts. I checked the DB, no issues found. Restarted
   anyway. Nginx logs show no issues or errors.
 * Thats where I am stuck.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8731281)
 * I recommend asking at [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/newsletter](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/newsletter)
   so the plugin’s or theme’s developers and support community can help you with
   this
 *  [Prathamesh Palve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prathameshp/)
 * (@prathameshp)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8731429)
 * okay about your issue with the newsletter plugin please ask the plugin developer
   about it. they would be very happy to address your issue.
 * If you are not able to activate any of the plugins you may have encountered some
   error .please mention that error over here .
 * Also which theme and plugins are you using ?
 * Also are you using a hosting of good quality please refer list of [hostings which meet minimum requirements /a>](https://wordpress.org/hosting/)
 *  Thread Starter [japayton42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpaytoncfd/)
 * (@jpaytoncfd)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8731445)
 * I said in the second paragraph that I can not Activate or Deactivate any plugins.
   I used the updates page to update 4 plugins at the same time. the first 3 worked
   fine. The 4th was the newsletter plugin. I have deleted the newsletter plugin
   entirly. I still can not Activate or Deactivate. I can install and delete but
   I can not activate.
 * I am hosting on Ubuntu 16.04 using Easy Engine. I have 6 wordpress sites on this
   server and the problem is only happening on this one. Again, No server errors.
   I was expecting 404 or 500 errors. But none. And when I Activate I get the confirmation
   that the Plugin has been activated.
 *  Thread Starter [japayton42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpaytoncfd/)
 * (@jpaytoncfd)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8731449)
 * I also thought a database error might be the problem but I can not find any.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8731890)
 * try [Enabling debugging ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress)
 *  Thread Starter [japayton42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpaytoncfd/)
 * (@jpaytoncfd)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8731956)
 * I went back and figured out which 4 plugins were updated. #3 was WP-Supercache.
   I cleared the caches and all is well.
 * Thanks for the debug suggestion. There were no more errors but I saw references
   to the cache so I went for that.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8732225)
 * Glad to know it 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-not-activate-plugins/#post-8732225)
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