Title: fatal errors when installing themes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# fatal errors when installing themes

 *  Resolved [proj9218](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proj9218/)
 * (@proj9218)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/)
 * After installing magicblack theme for our wp site we got the following error 
   message
 * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_pagenavi() (previously declared in
    /home/content/
   66/7895466/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-pagenavi/core.php:12) in /home/content/
   66/7895466/html/wp-content/themes/magicblack/adminpanel.php(2) : eval()’d code(
   1) : eval()’d code on line 221
 * now site doesn’t even display (www.projectcf.com). Any ideas of how to sort this?

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/#post-2161830)
 * using ftp rename wp-pagenavi plugin in plugins folder to say wp-pagenavi-hold
   to deactivate the plugin and see if that lets you log in.
 * switch to default theme by renaming magicblack theme in thems folder to magicblack-
   hold
 *  Thread Starter [proj9218](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proj9218/)
 * (@proj9218)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/#post-2161847)
 * did that… still not displaying…not too sure why. First time around there seemed
   to be a new error message along the lines of content and side menus not being
   found in their old locations.
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/#post-2161849)
 * If you don’t have access to your admin panel, try manually resetting your plugins,
   using ftp rename plugins folder to plugins_hold and create a blank plugins folder
   If that resolves the issue, delete blank plugins folder and rename original back
   to plugins reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.
 * If that does not resolve the issue, try switching Twenty Ten theme (WordPress
   3.0 and higher) to rule-out a theme-specific issue. If you don’t have access 
   to your admin panel, access your server via FTP or SFTP, navigate to /wp-content/
   themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. This will force
   the Default theme Twenty Ten theme (WordPress 3.0 and higher) to activate and
   hopefully rule-out a theme-specific issue.
 *  Thread Starter [proj9218](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proj9218/)
 * (@proj9218)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/#post-2161850)
 * this is the error I am getting now:
 * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare __popular_posts() (previously declared in /home/
   content/66/7895466/html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php:897) in /home/
   content/66/7895466/html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 1161
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/#post-2161851)
 * Did you make any change in twenty ten theme specially functions.php if so you
   will need to reinstall twenty ten theme

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-when-installing-themes/#post-2161851)
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