Title: cannot activate plgin
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# cannot activate plgin

 *  Resolved [skeem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skeem/)
 * (@skeem)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plgin/)
 * Hello, I got following error when trying to activate the plugin:
 * Warning: require_once(/var/www/web295/html/articleunique/wp-content/plugins/rating-
   widget/freemius/includes/abstract-freemius.php) [function.require-once]: failed
   to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/web295/html/articleunique/
   wp-content/plugins/rating-widget/freemius/start.php on line 20
 * Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/var/
   www/web295/html/articleunique/wp-content/plugins/rating-widget/freemius/includes/
   abstract-freemius.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /
   var/www/web295/html/articleunique/wp-content/plugins/rating-widget/freemius/start.
   php on line 20
 * Please help me to fix it
 * Best regards
 * skeem
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [RatingWidget](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ratingwidget/)
 * (@ratingwidget)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plgin/#post-5539134)
 * We are so sorry, and just released a fix to that:
    [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rating-widget.latest-stable.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rating-widget.latest-stable.zip)
 * Please replace the previous version with the new one, and it should be all working.
   There are two ways to disable/delete the previous plugin’s with FTP access or
   access to your Database (like phpMyAdmin). This post will guide you how to do
   that:
    [https://www.webhostinghero.com/manually-disable-wordpress-plugins/](https://www.webhostinghero.com/manually-disable-wordpress-plugins/)
 * Again – apologies for the inconvenience 🙁

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plgin/#post-5539134)
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