Title: Plugins dissapeared
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugins dissapeared

 *  [rgmt79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgmt79/)
 * (@rgmt79)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-dissapeared/)
 * I noticed today that all my plugins have disappeared and when I try to reinstall
   I says install failed because folder already exists. Does that mean that the 
   plugins are still there, in which case how can I get them to show? You can view
   my site at [http://blackbury-poems.com](http://blackbury-poems.com)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-dissapeared/#post-5041932)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. 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.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder and wp-
   config.php & root .htaccess files – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones.
 *  Thread Starter [rgmt79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rgmt79/)
 * (@rgmt79)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-dissapeared/#post-5042185)
 * Thanks for the advice esmi, this is helpful in getting the plugins reinstated.
   However, I’m curious to know what might have caused this. I have this and a few
   other WP sites and never this kind of problem before. I wonder if the latest 
   auto update to WP 3.9.1 could have caused this. Apart from posting, there have
   been no other changes to the site for some time.
 * Picking up on your 1st point, how would I recognise a “problematic plugin”?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-dissapeared/#post-5042186)
 * >  I wonder if the latest auto update to WP 3.9.1 could have caused this.
 * The update generally shouldn’t have caused this problem but it is possible that
   there was a hiccup on your site during the upgrade which caused this.
 * > how would I recognise a “problematic plugin”?
 * If you turn all plugins off and then switch them on on-by-one whilst monitoring
   the relevant area of the site, you would see that reactivating a “problem plugin”
   would cause your issue to re-appear. Thus you would now have a pretty good idea
   where the root issue is.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-dissapeared/#post-5042186)
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