Title: Problem activating SimpleVote
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Problem activating SimpleVote

 *  [ansklus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ansklus/)
 * (@ansklus)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-activating-simplevote/)
 * Hi,
    I like the idea of your plug-in “SimpleVote” and like to test it. But when
   activating it, I got this error message:
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Parse error:
   syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /var/www/…/wp-content/plugins/simplevote/basics/
   basic_plugin.class on line 138.
 * Well I’m not a programmer so is there a way to solve it manualy?
 * Thank you for help!
    Ansgar
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simplevote/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simplevote/)

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