Title: Activation Error?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Activation Error?

 *  Resolved [katart17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katart17/)
 * (@katart17)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/)
 * I keep getting the following error when trying to activate:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in [REDACTED]/wp-content/plugins/display-
   categories-widget/display_categories_widget.php on line 122
 * Any way to resolve this?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-categories-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-categories-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [iteamweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iteamweb/)
 * (@iteamweb)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3822904)
 * Hi,
    Please check if your hosting has disabled short tags.
 *  Thread Starter [katart17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katart17/)
 * (@katart17)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3822907)
 * I’m not familiar with short tags. Can you give me a quick explanation so I understand
   what I’m asking for?
 *  Plugin Author [iteamweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iteamweb/)
 * (@iteamweb)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3822944)
 * <?php can be written as <?
    but in server there will be a setting called short
   tags, if they are enabled <? also will work
 * You can try replacing <? to <?php
 *  Thread Starter [katart17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katart17/)
 * (@katart17)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3822947)
 * The server does support PHP Short Tags and I still can’t activate. I’ll do some
   more testing with no other plugins activated and the default theme.
 *  Plugin Author [iteamweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iteamweb/)
 * (@iteamweb)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3822981)
 * Please provide me the version of wordpress and your server configs. so that i
   can have a look
 *  Plugin Author [iteamweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iteamweb/)
 * (@iteamweb)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3822992)
 * There were some deprecated commands, that are removed please a fresh version 
   of this now
 *  [MAIK72](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maik72/)
 * (@maik72)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3823015)
 * Replacing <? with <?php worked for me.Many thanks

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-12/#post-3823015)
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