Title: [Plugin: Broken Link Checker] Activation error Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Broken Link Checker] Activation error * [Anticosti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anticosti/) * (@anticosti) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/) * Hi! Always getting this error when trying to activate Broken Link Checker: * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_screen_meta_link() (previously declared in / home/user/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/includes/screen- meta-links.php:256) in /home/user/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/gantry/ admin/screen-meta-links.php on line 205 * Kind Regards, * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Michael Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comprock/) * (@comprock) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774347) * I get this error as well. It’s because there’s another plugin of your using a copy of the screen-meta-links.php file. * The fix for now and hopefully that will be included soon is to open screen-meta- links.php and move the `endif;` to just before the `?>` at file end. * Thread Starter [Anticosti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anticosti/) * (@anticosti) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774354) * Thank you Michael for your support. I fixed it as you suggested + I also had to remove a function from gantry/admin/screen-meta-links.php : * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code). The maximum number of lines of code that you can post in these forums is **ten lines**. Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_ * Working now 🙂 * Cheers, * [hedera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hedera/) * (@hedera) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774469) * I’m having this same problem on a test site which uses RocketTheme’s Modulus theme, based on the Gantry framework. I tried to activate the Broken Link Checker and now I can’t get into my admin interface at all and I can’t load any pages; I just get the error. Thank God it’s a test site. * I tried moving the endif; to just before the ?> at file end without any effect, and I can’t see what the function was that Anticosti removed. I assume it’s this: * /** * Add a new link to the screen meta area. * I will try deleting that and see what happens. I really need a fix for this as I use the Broken Link Checker on the production site, for which I’m trying to develop the Gantry theme! * [Michael Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comprock/) * (@comprock) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774470) * What’s the error message? * [hedera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hedera/) * (@hedera) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774471) * The error message I got was: * `Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_screen_meta_link() (previously declared in/ home/content/16/6136616/html/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/includes/ screen-meta-links.php:256) in /home/content/16/6136616/html/wp-content/plugins/ gantry/admin/screen-meta-links.php on line 205` * I moved the endif; to just before ?> as you recommended, and it still didn’t help, so I simply removed the last function in the screen-meta-links.php file. Anticosti didn’t say which function he had to remove but I saw that, in the original file, after the endif; there was one whole function. I deleted that and my problem went away. If it continues to work, I may just live with that but if there is a fix I’d like to know. * I’ve been working on this site, using the Gantry-based theme, since early May. I never saw that error until I tried to activate the Broken Link Checker to check something: I had changed the name of a page and wanted to see if there were any links to it that I’d missed. * [Michael Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comprock/) * (@comprock) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774472) * In `wp-content/plugins/gantry/admin/screen-meta-links.php`, move the endif; to the file end as well. * [hedera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hedera/) * (@hedera) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774473) * I did move the endif; to the file end. It didn’t eliminate the error. * The error didn’t go away until I removed the last function in the file. It was late and I was trying to finish something, the error was preventing me from doing ANYTHING in my admin console. I didn’t have the energy to debug the php. * [hedera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hedera/) * (@hedera) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774506) * I thought this was fixed, then I came back from vacation and ran a bunch of plug- in updates on my site, and the error came back: * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_screen_meta_link() (previously declared in / home/content/16/6136616/html/wp-content/plugins/broken-link-checker/includes/ screen-meta-links.php:256) in /home/content/16/6136616/html/wp-content/plugins/ gantry/admin/screen-meta-links.php on line 205 * I had the solutions from this thread, of course, but they didn’t work this time. As far as I can tell, both Gantry and the Broken Link Checker use the SAME file, _screen\_meta\_links.php_, written by Janis Elsts. But Gantry is using a 2010 version, and BLC uses a 2011 update. I compared the files in WinMerge to discover this. The file contents are now so different that moving the endif; no longer corrects the problem. I’ve had a problem open in the RocketTheme forum since August and no one has responded. Anyone here got any suggestions? * [Michael Cannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comprock/) * (@comprock) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broken-link-checker-activation-error/#post-2774507) * I would suggest removing Gantry’s inclusion of the screen_meta_links.php. 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