Title: valid header issue on ALL plugins?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# valid header issue on ALL plugins?

 *  [Jonathan Bentz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanbentz/)
 * (@jonathanbentz)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/valid-header-issue-on-all-plugins/)
 * Clicked to update 3 plugins in my admin today and received the following error
   message for all of my installed plugins.
 * _The plugin [insert name of plugin here] has been deactivated due to an error:
   The plugin does not have a valid header._
 * We run a variety of commonly used plugins (Akisment, Gravity Forms, SEO Ultimate,
   Visual Composer, etc.) so I find it awfully convenient that each one suddenly
   does not have a valid header.
 * My plugins folder is intact, and I have only been dealing with this error over
   the last two days. We restored from a backup that was built before the error –
   but when I re-entered the plugin directory to update this AM, the error once 
   again was created.
 * Anyone else experience this? Are there folders or locations I need to check to
   find a file? How do I fix this?
 * Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [Jonathan Bentz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanbentz/)
 * (@jonathanbentz)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/valid-header-issue-on-all-plugins/#post-5972461)
 * UPDATE: site was recovered by simply restoring the database – so something is
   being changed there. Does that make life any easier for troubleshooting this?

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 * [plugin directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-directory/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/valid-header-issue-on-all-plugins/#post-5972461)
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