Title: WP-Admin Not Saving
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP-Admin Not Saving

 *  [jeremib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremib/)
 * (@jeremib)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/)
 * I have something strange going on.
 * I cannot
    * Activate/Deactivate Plugins * Move/Activate/Deactivate Widgets * 
   Change Widget settings
 * When I attempt to do any of these, it says it was successful, but if I refresh
   the page, it didn’t work.
 * For example, I click activate on a plugin, it says it successfully activated 
   the plugin, but it’s still deactivated, and the “Activate” link is still available
   to click for that plugin.
 * This started happening a few days ago.

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 *  [emkoller87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emkoller87/)
 * (@emkoller87)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/#post-1228488)
 * Is your wordpress up-to-date?
    Are you sure there isn’t something you have to
   follow through with?
 *  Thread Starter [jeremib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremib/)
 * (@jeremib)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/#post-1228498)
 * Yes, I just updated to 2.8.4 last night, through the automatic upgrade.
 * What do you mean follow through with? When making changes? Or on the upgrade?
 *  [emkoller87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emkoller87/)
 * (@emkoller87)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/#post-1228511)
 * The more I think about it, I think you might have some permission issues. It 
   might not necessarily have to do with you being an admin. There might be server
   issues or even issues with wordpress.
 * So you’re not getting any error msgs or anything when you try to change something
   it just doesn’t change?
 *  Thread Starter [jeremib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremib/)
 * (@jeremib)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/#post-1228531)
 * If I attempt to activate a plugin it says
 * > Plugin activated.
 * But the plugin is still listed as “inactive”, and the functionality is not added.
 * If I attempt to add a widget to the sidebar, it looks liked it was added and 
   opens the config panel for that widget. When I hit “Save” it seems like all has
   been saved as the spinning indicator disappears.
    If I refresh the widgets page,
   though, it is not active.
 * I thought about reinstalling to see if that did the trick.
 *  [emkoller87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emkoller87/)
 * (@emkoller87)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/#post-1228544)
 * Well try it and see what happens, there might be an bigger issue that you can’t
   see. Let me know if it’s still doing it.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [emkoller87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emkoller87/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-not-saving/#post-1228544)
 * Status: not resolved

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