How to fix the ‘The plugin does not have a valid header’ error when activating a WordPress plugin

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You want to extend WordPress’ functionality and decided to download some plugins found in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. After searching the repo, you’ve found two plugins that accomplishes the tasks you needed to implement in your blog. Downloading the plugins gives you two ZIP files that when double-clicked, shows you the contents in the following format:

plugin-a.zip

plugin-a-folder
---- plugin-a-main-file.php
---- plugin-a-readme.txt

plugin-b.zip

plugin-b-folder
---- plugin-b-subfolder
-------- plugin-b-main-file.php
-------- plugin-b-readme.txt

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Mage Enabler is now available for download in the Official WordPress Plugin repository!

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I’m soooo happy to see my very first plugin to be released for everyone to use. I hope it will help a lot of Magento and WordPress users!

Click! click! click!

Mage Enabler: A plugin to run Magento's session within WordPress

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Mage Enabler

Update (May 12, 2010): Mage Enabler is now available in the Official WordPress Plugin repository. Get it here!

It’s been a while since I posted my tweak that allows Mage object to be utilized within any WordPress installation. The tweak requires the blog owner to modify functions.php as stated in my post. I’m inspired by the feedback of the readers who used the tweak so I decided that a plugin that does the same thing should be made to prevent modifying the WordPress core files thus preventing the tweak to cause inconsistencies when an upgrade is necessary.

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WordCamp Philippines on October 2010!

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I’m sooo excited about this! For those who don’t know what WordCamp is, here is an excerpt from their site:

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.

WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

It is scheduled on October 2 this year and they haven’t publish any details yet, but what the heck! I’m still going! So fellow WordPress bloggers, hop on to our mothership!

How to use Magento’s session within WordPress

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Update (May 11, 2010): I created a WordPress plugin for this one. Check it out here.

You have a free WordPress blog that has been online for sometime. You love its simple yet powerful way of managing your content so you’ve decided to have it hosted to a different provider in order to have a more granular control to its code and functionality. Eventually, you needed cash to support the hosting expenses so you decided to utilize your blog for e-commerce use. That’s when Magento comes in to the scene. You want to find a way to use Magento as your backend while pulling your catalog and customer information to be posted to WordPress site. This is what my article is for.

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a customized theme for ipod users!

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it seems more and more people are starting to enjoy the convenience of having wifi access to different blogs through their ipod touch and iphones. for those who read my blog, you can view my silly point of view blog on a customized theme for iphone and ipod touch users :)

here’s a screenshot of my blog using safari browser of my ipod touch:

my silly point of view customized theme for ipod and iphone

my silly point of view customized theme for ipod and iphone

i used the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme to run this feature on my blog. you can check out their site on how to use it also in your wordpress blog!

thanks to content.robot for this very useful plugin :)