PC Minecraft Switches Not Functioning?

On Minecraft (PC), no switches seem to be doing anything. Buttons, pressure plates, redstone torches, pistons, none of that works.

It's a multiplayer server and the owner doesn't seem to know anything about why this is happening.

Is there some kind of command or something to have switches re-activated?

Tell him(owner) to do /stoplag -c
It may be the worldguard plugin blocking those things