Title: Cannot activate Version 3.2.8.1
Last modified: November 27, 2017

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# Cannot activate Version 3.2.8.1

 *  Resolved [tappenden_de](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tappenden_de/)
 * (@tappenden_de)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-version-3-2-8-1/)
 * After updating the SEO Booster plug-in to version 3.2.8.1, the plug-in cannot
   be activated.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in ***pathremoved***/wp-content/plugins/
   seo-booster/seo-booster.php on line 492

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 *  Thread Starter [tappenden_de](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tappenden_de/)
 * (@tappenden_de)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-version-3-2-8-1/#post-9724973)
 * I should add that I also tried removing the seo-booster directory using FTP and
   re-installing from the repository, but that did not solved the problem.
 *  Plugin Author [cleverplugins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cleverplugins/)
 * (@cleverplugins)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-version-3-2-8-1/#post-9750247)
 * Hello tappenden_de
 * Thank you for your bug report, sorry I was away and not able to respond earlier.
 * I have just checked the plugin and verified I can download and install correctly.
   I am curious which PHP version you might be running or if there was a problem
   with the recent WordPress 4.9 release?
 * I have just pushed out a new version that includes a couple of fixes, could I
   perhaps ask you to try again if it works?
 *  Thread Starter [tappenden_de](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tappenden_de/)
 * (@tappenden_de)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-version-3-2-8-1/#post-9755509)
 * I tried updating to plug-in version 3.2.9 but it didn’t solve the problem.
 * The site was running PHP 5.3.29 and WordPress 4.9.1.
 * I notched the site up to PHP 5.4.45 and the plug-in now works!
 *  Plugin Author [Lars Koudal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lkoudal/)
 * (@lkoudal)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-version-3-2-8-1/#post-9756347)
 * Hello tappende_de
 * Great to hear that it was the PHP version that was the problem 🙂 Sorry for the
   trouble you went through.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-version-3-2-8-1/#post-9756347)
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