[wp-hackers] What makes WP index a plugin?

[John Blackbourn]

On 16 June 2011 00:14, Arthur <apeka1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems like a goofy question, but I've ran into some problems, when
> creating both themes and plugins. When creating plugin from scratch, I put
> all the meta info required in empty file, name it like 'plugin_name.php', go
> into WP dashboard, restart it - plugin not recognized.

Have you double-checked that you have all the required headers? They
can be found at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#File_Headers