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can't upload plugins

JE John Eveland
John Eveland
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Jan 22, 2014 · 5:40 pm · Edited

This may have been dealt with elsewhere, but I couldn’t find a solution; if so, I apologize.

I’m a new simplepress user. my basic forum seems to be operating fine. But when I try to upload any plugins, I get an error. It seems to involve a message like the following:

Unable to remove the uploaded plugin zip archive: /problem-with-post-edit-buttonsphere/local/problem-with-post-edit-buttonome/xxxxx/jdeveland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/admin-bar1.zip

Then I get bounced to a page that says only:

Are you sure that you want to do this? Try again.

Trying again only brings up the same page again.

This is frustrating, since there are a number of plugins that I’d like to  install to improve functionality.

I’ve checked out file permissions. I even tried setting everything to 777, but exactly the same results.

Can anyone help?  Thanks!

     JD

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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Jan 22, 2014 · 9:34 pm

are you sure you are treating them as sp plugins and not wp plugins?

http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/plugin-basics/using-plugins/

no you dont want 777…  and for what its worth, its wp that is trying to delete that file, not sp…

if using them as sp plugins, did you check the sp plugins dir and see if it was uploaded?  wp only tries to delete it after uploading and extracting to the right location…

I notice that the zip name has a 1 in it which another wp issue…  probably from the repeat with the non numeric one there… so yeah, check the sp plugins location and see if plugin is there…

JE John Eveland
John Eveland
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Member since Jan 2014
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Jan 25, 2014 · 5:46 pm

Thanks! Actually, I was able to deal with this without actually solving the problem. I unzipped the plugins on my end, and then uploaded them to the right SP folder using FTP. Then they showed up correct.

And I did change my permissions back to 755; is that the correct one?

MP Mr Papa
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Jan 26, 2014 · 1:23 am

excellent!  thanks for the update… yes, 0755 is preferred…