Title: Installed plugins list is blank
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Installed plugins list is blank

 *  [Manuel5cc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manuel5cc/)
 * (@manuel5cc)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installed-plugins-list-is-blank/)
 * I have a wordpress site hosted on a shared server. Sometimes it happened to me
   that, when accessing to the “Plugins” section in my installation, I had an error
   in ALL plugins showing that “the plugin has an invalid header” and they were 
   automatically disabled and removed from the list.
 * When this happened the previous times, I just had to re-upload all the plugins
   folders from a backup and that fixed it, but now, although the folders are into
   the “Plugins” folder in my server, I can’t see anything, the list is blank. This
   is a bit weird, anyone knows?
 * PS: I don’t have and never had Mailpoet installed so this doesn’t seem to be 
   related to the hack.

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installed-plugins-list-is-blank/#post-5897310)
 * > although the folders are into the “Plugins” folder in my server, I can’t see
   > anything, the list is blank.
 *  Please explain. How do you know they are in the plugins folder if you can’t 
   see them?
 *  Thread Starter [Manuel5cc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manuel5cc/)
 * (@manuel5cc)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installed-plugins-list-is-blank/#post-5897311)
 * Hello:
    Sorry if I didn’t explain myself really well:
 * I CAN see the plugins folders accessing through ftp, I CAN’T see the plugins 
   in the admin zone of my wordpress installation. I hope that this clears the things
   a bit.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installed-plugins-list-is-blank/#post-5897469)
 * Have you tried:
    -deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem(
   rename the folder via ftp plugins-old). If this works, re-activate the plugins
   one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). -switching to the default
   theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 *  Thread Starter [Manuel5cc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manuel5cc/)
 * (@manuel5cc)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installed-plugins-list-is-blank/#post-5897619)
 * I have tried to rename the plugins folder to “plugins-old”, create a new one 
   with the right permissions and upload there the backup of my plugins one by one
   and my wordpress can’t even detect a single one. I actually have one plugin and
   wordpress shows that I dont have anyone.

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 * Last reply from: [Manuel5cc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manuel5cc/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installed-plugins-list-is-blank/#post-5897619)
 * Status: not resolved

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