Title: Activation
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Activation

 *  Resolved [jgmarsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgmarsh/)
 * (@jgmarsh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-4/)
 * When I try and activate this plugin I get the following error
    Parse error: syntax
   error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in ……./wp-content/plugins/wp-frontpage-news/inc/
   wp-fpn-main.inc.php on line 137
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-frontpage-news/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-frontpage-news/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Yann at WP&Co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ydubois/)
 * (@ydubois)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-4/#post-4533210)
 * [@jgmarsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgmarsh/): the version of PHP 
   on your hosting server is outdated, and is no longer supported by either PHP,
   WordPress or this plugin. Please check with your web hosting provider and upgrade
   PHP to at least version 5.3, which dates back 4 years ago already.
 *  Thread Starter [jgmarsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgmarsh/)
 * (@jgmarsh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-4/#post-4533233)
 * Thanks for the reply.
    I have upgraded to php 5.5, but still get the same error.
 * Thanks
    John

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 * Last reply from: [jgmarsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jgmarsh/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-4/#post-4533233)
 * Status: resolved