Title: plugin does not have valid header
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# plugin does not have valid header

 *  [swood01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swood01/)
 * (@swood01)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-have-valid-header-1/)
 * I just updated to the latest version of WordPress and many plugins were added
   automatically. When I try to activate any plugin, I get the message, “plugin 
   does not have a valid header”. What do I do?

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 * [valid header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/valid-header/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [swood01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swood01/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-have-valid-header-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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