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

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# "This plugin does not have a valid header"

 *  [Carolyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ischuo/)
 * (@ischuo)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-1/)
 * When I tried to activate the plugin I received a message that said, “This plugin
   does not have a valid header.”

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-1/#post-2052394)
 * It appears to just be incorrectly packaged. You can work around the problem by
   downloading to your desktop, extracting, navigating two levels deep and extracting
   the contents of the additional .zip directory you find there, then upload the“
   Groupon-Affiliate-Plugin” directory to your plugins. It will then activate. I’m
   sure the maintainer will fix it soon.
 *  [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenenergycafe/)
 * (@greenenergycafe)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-1/#post-2052588)
 * Well, it’s a MONTH later, and no one has fixed it!

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Richard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenenergycafe/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-does-not-have-a-valid-header-1/#post-2052588)
 * Status: not resolved