Wordpress Plugin Installation Failed Error Message: Here's the Fix

Wordpress Plugin Installation Failed Error Message: Here's the Fix

Wordpress Plugin Installation Failed Error Message: Here's the Fix

In this video, learn how to fix the ""Wordpress plugin installation failed destination folder already exists” Message. This can happen when you’re trying to install a WordPress plugin on your website. I take you step by step through the process of locating your wp-content folder in File Managerm and then removing the offending plugin directory so you can go back and successfully install a fresh copy of the required WordPress plugin.

This may be necessary in a situation where a plugin has been corrupted and uninstalling it leaves behind some files or a plugin folder in CPanel. If this happens, you cannot simply re-install the plugin via the WordPress admin panel. Instead, you have to go into File Manager in CPanel, locate the relevant plugin, and delete the folder there.

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22.09 -> \f0\fs24 \cf0 \ Okay so I've gone through and I've\
23.09 -> \ updated the plugins I seem to have an\
24.699 -> \ issue with. UpdraftPlus, for some reason -\
27.29 -> \ I'm not sure why - but we can try and\
32.68 -> \ reinstall that one. It\'92s not showing so
36.17 -> far. \ \
37.17 -> Let's have a look. So we're going to \'93add\ \
42.65 -> new\'94 [plugin] and I am going to try and reload it\
48.609 -> \ now. It may not let me. If the file exists\
54.6 -> \ in the cPanel file manager it's not\
57.239 -> \ going to let me re-install the plugin, but
58.43 -> I'm going to give it\ \
60.17 -> a go\ \
61.17 -> because it's a good plugin that\ \
63.29 -> I do like. There are other ones\ \
65.91 -> but I like this one because it's\ \
69.2 -> maintained and a lot of others aren\'92t.\ \
72.92 -> Let's have a look. UpdraftPlus.\ \
74.149 -> Here we go. I'm going to give this a go. You\ \
75.9 -> can tell it's a popular plugins because it has 2+ million active installs\
78.71 -> \ and its last update was only three weeks ago.\
81.34 -> \ So you know it's a good bet from those\
85.49 -> \ indications alone. Alright, let's have a\
90.95 -> \ look. That's installing. Hopefully it won't\
93.159 -> \ take too long. Okay, so that tells me that\
99.7 -> \ the destination folder is already there\
102.359 -> \ So what I can do and I can demonstrate\
106.439 -> \ this for you actually. So I am going\
110.06 -> \ to go to my host and I'm going to give\
116.179 -> \ you an impromptu demonstration I didn't\
120.26 -> \ plan on doing. So we go in there\
131.76 -> \ [Music]\
136.89 -> \ Let's try this one. So, I'm going to go into\
141.27 -> \ the back-end for hosting and I'm\
146.09 -> \ going to find that file and I'm going to\
149.629 -> \ delete it. And then it will allow me\
152.569 -> \ to reinstall that particular plugin. So\
156.79 -> \ let's have a look. if you're watching this
160.89 -> on the replay\ \
162.67 -> thank you so much for tuning in and if\ \
165.7 -> you have any comments please leave those\ \
167.629 -> in the comment box below. I will be\ \
170.43 -> repurposing this content and sending it\ \
173.76 -> out in various different forms so watch\ \
176.569 -> the space. I will sign out now. Thanks so\ \
180.04 -> much to everybody who watched and I\ \
182.86 -> will see you again next week.\ \
184.879 -> See you later bye bye}

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC0qFrhDDhY