Title: Shortcode-Finder install fails Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Shortcode-Finder install fails * [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/) * “The package could not be installed. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature” * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-finder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-finder/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740043) * Afternoon tjpa! * This issue is similar to the one found in [this thread](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/pclzip_err_bad_format-1?replies=7). * It sounds like the plugin could not be extracted from the .zip archive with the likely cause being that your web server is full. * Can you verify that you have enough space to install the plugin? * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740044) * I have 2.6 GB free. My unzip utility will not unzip the file. Nor would a second unzip utility I tried. Message is “unable to determine the format”. Perhaps this version of the file is corrupt? I did download the file more than once. Same result. * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740045) * I was able to download and unzip the file just fine on both a Win 8.1 machine and a OSX Mavericks machine so I’m sure what the deal is there. * If you can’t get it, we also have a [Github repo](https://github.com/MediaSoil/Shortcode-Finder) where you can download the files manually. Just upload the shortcode-finder folder to your plugins directory and you should be good to go. * Let me know if that works out for you! * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740046) * Stubborn &*%$#!, but making progress. Thanks for the assist. As you suggested I downloaded the files from Github. Installed OK. Activated OK. * I now have an item “Shortcodes” under “Tools”. I click in that to get a screen with a heading “Available Shortcodes:” and the rest of the page is blank. The Edit Post screen now has a button “Add Shortcode” which gets me a pop-up window with headings “Pick a shortcode: Pick your attributes:” and nothing else on the page except an “Insert into page” button at the bottom. * Since I’m using all sorts of shortcodes I know they exist. What to do? * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740050) * No problem, sorry for the troubles. It’s a first release so it’s possible it’s a bug. Right now it’s sounding like a server setting. * Can you tell me which Server/PHP Version you’re using? Hopefully we’ll get this figured out for you! * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740051) * Running MAMP 2.2 on OS X 10.6.8 Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/ 0.9.8y DAV/2 PHP/5.5.3 * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740065) * Morning tjpa, * I was looking around the forums for issues related to the error: [PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT](http://wordpress.org/tags/pclzip_err_bad_format) * That error you were originally reporting in and of itself doesn’t seem like a plugin specific issue. However, the shortcodes not showing up is still an issue. I run a Mavericks dev server at home (AMPSS) and it tests out without issues. PHP 5 is necessary for the plugin to work, as it uses the Reflection Class (and you have that version). * What version of WP are you running? Are there any other error messages you can report on the tool page or shortcode page? Any chance you have PHP errors off? * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740068) * Thanks. Works perfectly fine with AMMPS. Could be that it has a problem with MAMP? * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740069) * “AMPPS”. You know what I mean. * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740070) * Ha, yes, “AMPPS”, my bad on that too. * My guess is it has to do with the default PHP configuration for AMPPS vs. MAMP. * In your MAMP setup, if you turn on all PHP errors, do you see anything when you visit the tools page? * Also, the reason the plugin wouldn’t install from the plugin directory directly was that we were nesting the folder… my bad on that! Should work like any other plugin now! * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740071) * Nothing in the php_error.log file about you. * Is this good? error_reporting = E_ALL display_errors = Off display_startup_errors = Off log_errors = On log_errors_max_len = 1024 ignore_repeated_errors = Off ignore_repeated_source = Off report_memleaks = On track_errors = Off error_log = “/Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log” * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740072) * Hmm, that should be reporting errors, so if you’re not getting anything for our plugin we can rule that out I guess. * Here’s a random thought, if you echo the PHP constant DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR what does that output look like in MAMP? * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740073) * / * Plugin Author [MediaSoil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mediasoil/) * (@mediasoil) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740074) * That’s as it should be. * Ok, last idea, try running the sample code from apmithani from the [PHP docs here](http://us2.php.net/manual/en/class.reflection.php). If everything checks out there then I’m at a loss. I’ll have to setup a duplicate MAMP environment and run through some stuff to see if I can replicate. * Thread Starter [Tom P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tjpa/) * (@tjpa) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-finder-install-fails/#post-4740075) * That code snippet outputs “1 2” * Fortunately MAMP is very easy to set up and can run concurrently with AMPPS. * Thanks for your assist and for pointing me at AMPPS. That will be useful. 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