Comments on: Can’t install WordPress plugins and themes via dashboard – a fix

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:28:04 +0000

Changing permissions to 777 and then back to 755 helped some people.
Try disabling all plugins at once via dashboard and try installing a new one, or updating an existing. See what happens.

Make sure that after changing the mem. limit, you upload the right file online.

Let me know if that helped.

If you have the cache plugin, uninstall it and see what happens.

By: dilek

dilek — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:40:38 +0000

Yes, I did. The strange thing is that I don't get an error message, just a blank screen for minutes with a toolbar message saying the data is being transfered…
I changed the file & folder permissions to 777, WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to 64M , deleted the plugin and tried to install another one (in case that the plugin is faulty). No use.
Is it possible that the installed theme or Wordpress version 2.9.1. somehow blocks the new plugins?

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:50:03 +0000

Did you changed the permissions back to 755?
It did work for some people, but didn't work for me.

By: dilek

dilek — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:43:47 +0000

Unfortunately this doesn't work for me. I also tried to change the file permission to 777, but didn't help.

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