Title: Plugin won't activate
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Plugin won't activate

 *  Resolved [drloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drloon/)
 * (@drloon)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-2/)
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in d:\
   hshome\drloon\uramovski.com\wp\wp-content\plugins\embed-chessboard\embedchessboard.
   php on line 130
 * Any help is appreciated.
 * mat
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embed-chessboard/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embed-chessboard/)

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 *  Thread Starter [drloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drloon/)
 * (@drloon)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-2/#post-3408444)
 * Problem solved.
 * Web host needed to upgrade their PHP.
 *  Plugin Author [pgn4web](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgn4web/)
 * (@pgn4web)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-2/#post-3408500)
 * Glad you solved it.
 * It would be interesting to know which version of php had the error.

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 * Last reply from: [pgn4web](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgn4web/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wont-activate-2/#post-3408500)
 * Status: resolved