[Plugin: Shadowbox JS] Shadowbox-js Will Install Failed – Why?

  • I would REALLY like to use Shadowbox on the WP site I’m trying to build at https://danacoopermusic.com – but I’m afraid that Dana has chosen a an obscure theme that is thwarting my best-laid plans.

    I just tried to install shadowbox-js, but after running the installation routine, I got this error:

    >>Could not create directory. /mnt/files/d/danacoopermusic.com/www/wp/wp-content/plugins/shadowbox-js/

    Plugin Install Failed.<<<

    Now, I don’t know if that’s something that this theme (it’s called ModiOne) is causing, or if I’ve got something screwy in my configuration file, or…what?

    What is all this /mnt/file/d/…?? My WordPress directory is danacoopermusic.com/wp, although the root directory above /wp is indeed www. So danacoopermusic.com/www/wp should be right. So why won’t the plug-in install?

    Could it have anything to do with this cockeyed theme? I’ve already run into limitations with the theme – like I had to change some code just to get it to recognize widgets in the side bar. Do I need to do something also to get it to handle plugins, too?

    Mystified… this is beyond me, I can use WordPress, but I can’t sit here all night and try to figure out why things don’t work.

    Can somebody please suggest a solution that might work?

    Thanks,

    –PS

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  • Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    Another note, I wonder if the problem has something to do with the re-direct of the WP directory, so that the root directory would be the WP site. This is what I’ve got in my “General” settings.

    ?WordPress address (URL) https://www.danacoopermusic.com/wp

    Blog address (URL) https://www.danacoopermusic.com

    I went through the various hoops I had to go through to get that to work, but is that what’s now causing this problem with the plug-in install?

    Is there a “manual” way to install the plug-in instead?

    Thanks,

    –PS

    Could you install other plugins before or is this the first plugin you are trying to install?
    You can upload the plugin manually to /wp-content/plugins/ and then activate it through your admin backend.

    “Could not create directory.” I had the same problem and did this: Could not create directory – Plugin Install Failed

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