Title: Activation error
Last modified: December 15, 2018

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# Activation error

 *  [filipostrowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filipostrowski/)
 * (@filipostrowski)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-93/)
 * When I try to activate plugin I got this:
    Plugin could not be activated because
   it triggered a fatal error. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /wp-
   content/plugins/simple-social-icons/simple-social-icons.php on line 514
 * I have this error 1 or 2 months, with previous veriosns of WordPress and with
   the new one. Plugin Version 3.0.0
 * Regards
    Filip

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Nick C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modernnerd/)
 * (@modernnerd)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-93/#post-10992454)
 * Hi, [@filipostrowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filipostrowski/).
 * The error suggests an old version of PHP is active on your server, such as PHP
   5.2.
 * If you ask your host to update to a supported version of PHP, such as PHP 5.6
   + (but ideally at least PHP 7.1), you will no longer see this error. [http://php.net/supported-versions.php](http://php.net/supported-versions.php)
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by [Nick C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modernnerd/).
 *  Thread Starter [filipostrowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filipostrowski/)
 * (@filipostrowski)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-93/#post-10992460)
 * Thanks for help. I’ll check PHP version.

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 * Last reply from: [filipostrowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filipostrowski/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activation-error-93/#post-10992460)
 * Status: not resolved