Wordpress theme upload error PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT

Question

I\'m new to php as well as wordpress however because of some need I had to work with wordpress only. So just to start I read a tutorial and created a wordpress theme of my own a

Answer 1

I had this problem while trying to install Wordpress plugin from the Wordpress interface. Turns out the disk space quota was full for that specific account. I went to WHM manager and increased the quota and the problem was solved.

Answer 2

I got this error when I had the zip-plugin not installed. For Ubuntu/Debian and php7.4 (Bionic) you can use

apt-get install php7.4-zip
service php7.4-fpm restart