Title: Broken plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Broken plugin

 *  [Rossejbli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossejbli/)
 * (@rossejbli)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-plugin/)
 * After install, I click turn-on and is says: the plugin has invalid header..

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-plugin/#post-2081026)
 * Try some basics first.
 * 1 – Backup your installation. Not trying to frighten you, this is always a good
   first step.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)
 * 2 – Remove that plugin completely. Make sure the file directory is removed wp-
   content/plugins/post_list_widget
 * 3 – Re-install again from the source.
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-list-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-list-widget/)
 * If that doesn’t work, try de-activating all of your existing plugins and then
   re-activating just that one. This is just to see if another plugin is causing
   a conflict.

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-plugin/#post-2081026)
 * Status: not resolved