Title: Fatal error for plugin install
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Fatal error for plugin install

 *  [adijaffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adijaffe/)
 * (@adijaffe)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-for-plugin-install/)
 * I get the following error whenever I try to install a plugin. If I try to upload
   the folder myself via FTP, it simply doesn’t show up in my plugin menu.
    ** Fatal
   error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /home/content/a/d/i/adijaffe/html/wordpress/
   wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 171
 * any ideas?

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 *  Thread Starter [adijaffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adijaffe/)
 * (@adijaffe)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-for-plugin-install/#post-980573)
 * actually, it’s even worse – I’ve pretty much lost control over my plugins. I 
   tried to deactivate one (snap shots) and it’s still working.
 * WTF?!
 *  [mikey1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikey1/)
 * (@mikey1)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-for-plugin-install/#post-980650)
 * Hi there, I would check your directory structure, your plugins should be here,\
   wordpress\wp-content\plugins, I would also chck where you have upladed the snap
   shots plugin, dlete it and upload it to the plugins folder.
    hope you get there.
   mike.
 *  Thread Starter [adijaffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adijaffe/)
 * (@adijaffe)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-for-plugin-install/#post-980701)
 * They’re all in the right folder, I found the problem with snapshots, it was the
   code in the footer. But I still can’t add any plugins. Is there a maximum limit
   of plugins? If not, is there a way to rebuild some index file that would make
   it reexamine the plugins in the folder?
 *  Thread Starter [adijaffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adijaffe/)
 * (@adijaffe)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-for-plugin-install/#post-980820)
 * does anyone know what the error means and if there’s a way for me to fix it so
   that automatic aspects of wordpress like plugins and updates can work properly?

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 * Last reply from: [adijaffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adijaffe/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-for-plugin-install/#post-980820)
 * Status: not resolved

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