Title: Plugin does not have a valid header.
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Plugin does not have a valid header.

 *  [vmvargas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vvargas/)
 * (@vvargas)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-13/)
 * After installing the plugin, when I click on activate plugin i get the following
   error message:
 * **The plugin does not have a valid header.**
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plotly/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plotly/)

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 *  [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srg-1/)
 * (@srg-1)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-13/#post-8416834)
 * It looks like this is due to the unicode character in the Author’s name in the
   plugin header.

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 * Last reply from: [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srg-1/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-13/#post-8416834)
 * Status: not resolved