Title: "Not a valid WordPress Plugin"… Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # "Not a valid WordPress Plugin"… * [tonyoz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tonyoz/) * (@tonyoz) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-a-valid-wordpress-plugin/) * I have tried **two different WordPress plugins** that won’t install with the error message **“This is not a valid WordPress Plugin”** I downloaded them from this site, so why the error? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [Justin Greer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justingreerbbi/) * (@justingreerbbi) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-a-valid-wordpress-plugin/#post-6674615) * Could you share the two WordPress plugins in question? * [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/) * (@jasoncharlesstuartking) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-a-valid-wordpress-plugin/#post-6674632) * Were you uploading them by FTP? * Or did you try to install them from within WordPress dashboard > plugins > add new? * I’ve installed plugins many hundreds of times and never seen that error message. Googled the message: nothing came up. Which makes me wonder whether there’s something else going on and this is nothing to do with those plugins. * Maybe share a screenshot of that error. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘"Not a valid WordPress Plugin"…’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/install/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Jason King](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasoncharlesstuartking/) * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-a-valid-wordpress-plugin/#post-6674632) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics