I'm adding plugins to my directory, and placing them within the plugin in the root under the /inc.
However, they are not appearing in the plugin's menu.
What am I doing wrong?
so you are placing them in /mybbfolder/inc/plugins ?
are the permissions correct for the file and is the file owner correct?
Also, are you extracting the files from the .zip or just placing the .zip inside the folder? The files must be extracted into the folder.
Yup they are being placed in the plugins folder. And I am uploading them from a secondary file after extracting them from a .rar.
What do you meant by permissions are correct for the file? And if the owner is correct?
how are you uploading the files?
if the permissions are such that the webserver or PHP can not access them then you wont see them in the browser.
you should look up CHMOD and see how you can check it or set it in your hosting account.
I'm uploading the files using a Firefox FTP client directly into the root folder.
unless the plugin has the /inc/plugins folder that contain the plugin file itself, you need to upload to inc/plugins and not to the forum root.