# Wordpress plugins not showing up in local dev vm

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/wordpress-plugins-not-showing-up-in-local-dev-vm/11150
**Category:** trellis
**Tags:** trellis
**Created:** 2017-12-17T19:10:24Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @congurentsq — 2017-12-17T19:10:24Z

I am developing a new wordpress plugin with the local dev setup and my plugin does not showup in wordpress plugin list. I ‘vagrant-ssh’ into the machine and the plugins are in the right directory. Is there something else I need to do?

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## Post 2 by @Simeon — 2017-12-17T23:36:24Z

Are you on OS X High Sierra? If so:

> [@High Sierra upgrade issues with filesystem](https://discourse.roots.io/t/high-sierra-upgrade-issues-with-filesystem/10594/8):
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> Solution! [Found here](https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/8788). (Note the most recent OSX supplemental update did not fix this issue) To prove I had the problem my Plugins page on Development was empty, even though the folder was full. If I SSH’d into the Vagrant box and tried ls in the plugins folder it gave the error reading directory '.': Too many levels of symbolic links Find this line: config.vm.synced\_folder local\_site\_path(site), nfs\_path(name), type: 'nfs' Add to the end: , mount\_options: [ 'nolock', 'vers=3', 'tcp', 'fsc…

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## Post 3 by @congurentsq — 2017-12-18T05:35:34Z

Nope, this is on windows.