Title: Failed to activate this plugin
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Failed to activate this plugin

 *  Resolved [silverbackmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverbackmedia/)
 * (@silverbackmedia)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-activate-this-plugin/)
 * Hello!
 * I’ve downloaded this plugin, installed it, but unfortunately it fails to activate.
 * I get the error message:
    `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in/
   storage/content/84/153984/iversjo.se/public_html/wp-content/plugins/user-tags/
   UserTags.php on line 228`
 * Would be a relief to sort this out as I would need something like this.
 * Regards Silverbackmedia
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-tags/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-tags/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Umesh Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshsingla/)
 * (@umeshsingla)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-activate-this-plugin/#post-5487728)
 * Hi [@silverbackmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverbackmedia/),
 * Can you try the development version from [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-tags/branches/1.2.5](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-tags/branches/1.2.5)
 * or
    [https://github.com/UmeshSingla/user-tags/archive/1.2.5.zip](https://github.com/UmeshSingla/user-tags/archive/1.2.5.zip)
 * And update me if it works for you, or you still get the error?
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [silverbackmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverbackmedia/)
 * (@silverbackmedia)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-activate-this-plugin/#post-5487733)
 * Hi, thanks for the response!
 * The development version from [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-tags/branches/1.2.5](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-tags/branches/1.2.5)
   did work! 🙂
 * Thanks a bunch!
 * Regards Silverbackmedia
 *  Plugin Author [Umesh Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshsingla/)
 * (@umeshsingla)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-activate-this-plugin/#post-5487735)
 * Hi [@silverbackmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverbackmedia/),
 * Great, I’ll make sure to include those changes in next release, although you 
   have to make a small change in the file UserTags.php, cheange the version from
   1.2.5 to 1.2.4, so that when the new version is released you’ll get the update
   for it, otherwise you will miss that.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [silverbackmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverbackmedia/)
 * (@silverbackmedia)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-activate-this-plugin/#post-5487737)
 * Alright, I’ll do that, thanks!
 * I will rate this plugin too
 * Cheers!
 * Regards Silverbackmedia

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 * Last reply from: [silverbackmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverbackmedia/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-activate-this-plugin/#post-5487737)
 * Status: resolved