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How to Fix WordPress “Plugin does not have a valid header” Error

gerry — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:27:34 +0000

If you ever run into this “Plugin does not have a valid header” error when installing a wordpress plugin, here is a very simple solution that tends to work most of the time.

Find the plugin in question.

Lets imagine you just bought EZ Empire Builder and are ready to install it on your WordPress site. Lets also assume you just updated to WordPress version 2.9.1 from 2.8.

The first thing to do is to go to your wp-admin panel and click,

‘Plugins > Editor’

Next, see the drop down menu near the top right side of your ‘Edit Plugins’ console. Open the drop down menu and find ‘EZ Empire Builder’ and select it by hitting the ‘Select’ button.

On the right side of the text box you will see several files that make up the EZ Empire Builder plugin. One of those files will be,

‘ezempirebuilder/readme.txt’

Click that link and you will see the contents of that readme.txt file appear on the main text editor.

Inside this file you will see where it says,

‘Tested up to: 2.8.4′ or something similar. This number may vary but the important thing is that it shows at least as high as the current version of WordPress that you are currently using.

To fix your “Plugin does not have a valid header” problem, simply edit this number to your current version number or higher and save your changes.

Now your headers problem should be resolved until such a date that you update your WordPress Version to a date beyond your current new setting. Updating to WordPress 3.0 for example would require this setting to be updated again.

One easy way to avoid this problem in the future is to set it quite a bit ahead. The “Plugin does not have a valid header” error serves no real value and can be easily suppressed so, might as well do it and save yourself the troubles.

How to Cloak to Multiple Different Landing Pages

gerry — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:22:35 +0000

I created this Screencast to help anyone confused about setting up WP Cloaker to redirect to multiple landing pages from one install using category cloaking.

Grandaddy Method For Finding Great Feeds For Use With Wp Feeder!

gerry — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:35:33 +0000

People have mentioned having troubles finding feeds for use with WP Feeder. So, rather than explaining all the various ways you can go about finding great feeds, I’ll make this easy and stick to teaching you the Grandaddy method that puts all others to shame!

The video tells all!

Click Here to watch the video now!

Enjoy!

How To Find The Start And End Tags For Scraping With Wp Scraper

gerry — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:56:25 +0000

Some people have mentioned that they have troubles finding the start and end tags surrounding articles for scraping with WP Scraper.

There are a few reasons you may have troubles with this:

1. You aren’t familiar with HTML, which I hope if not, you’ll take some time to read a few tutorials on HTML because it will really come in handy and save you a bunch of time and frustration later on.

2. The article directory just doesn’t use CSS or the code is pretty bland and its just impossible to find unique tags surrounding the articles, as I’ll explain later.

3. Or, you’re just unsure how to do it.

Hopefully this short demo will help those of you having troubles…

Click Here to Watch Video

Enjoy!

New FAQ Released

gerry — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:23:50 +0000

We’ve made a new FAQ that I will try to add common questions to more and more, over time. You can find it at anytime in the Footer of this blog…

Setup Cron on Godaddy

gerry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:59:56 +0000

1. Godaddy Hosting Homepage

2. At Cron Manager Page: Click “Create Cron Job” button

3. Fill out the form: Godaddy provides a Browse button to select the file (pretty easier). The cron command will be constructed automatically.

4. Browse Window: Just browse to your WP installation directory and select the index.php file.

5. After file selection, fill in other fields.

6. Done.

Note: Don’t forget to edit email address for cron report.

Setup Cron on HostGator

gerry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:10:15 +0000

IMPORTANT: These notes ONLY apply to people using HostGator or SEOhosting hosting accounts.

HostGator and .htaccess…

When it comes to running simple cron commands on your HostGator hosting account, you’ll need to place a .htaccess file in the cgi-bin of each account.

This .htaccess file must be placed in the public_html directory of each website hosted on a shared hosting package.

If you have a reseller account, you only need to put it in the main cgi-bin. This will then eliminate your need to duplicate the file for each individual public_html directory.

Editing your .htaccess File…

Here are the commands to place inside your .htaccess file if you are using HostGator:

order deny,allow deny from all allow from all order deny,allow deny from all

Step-by-Step Screen Shots: Setting up Cron

Here are some screenshots to assist in setting up cron on HOSGATOR HOSTING accounts.

NOTE: You may click on the below images to view larger screen shots.

1. From CPANEL Homepage:

2. Cron Jobs page:

3. Set 1. Email address, 2. Put command cron command we provide, and 3. Set the schedule.

4. Done

The Cron Code

The following commands seem to work with HostGator and my plugins…

php /home/yourfolder/public_html/yoursite.com/index.php action=cl_cron cron_code=0123456

php -q /home/yourfolder/public_html/yoursite.com/index.php action=cl_cron cron_code=0123456

…where “yourfolder” = your sites folder and where “0123456″ is your cron code found in the ‘Options’ tab of the relevant plugin (ie., WP Scraper or WP Feeder, etc)…

Additional questions? Email support for more help.