Plugins not showing in dashboard->plugins section

About 60% of plugins that I install don’t show up in my plugins section.

When I install them it says they’re installed, and when I click “activate plugin” it says theres no valid header for the plugin. Navigating to the main plugin section in the dashboard the plugin doesn’t show up at all, so I can’t activate it from the main plugin page either.

What’s wrong here. I’m not using the multi-site wordpress, just a standard wordpress installation with buddypress on top.

Thanks

Tom

Download the plugin as a zip, extract and manually upload the folder that immediately parents all the .php files (i.e not a folder that has another folder as its child) into you plugin folder.

Sometimes dev’s can zip things within an extra folder, which confuses wordpress.