Title: Cannot redeclare wp_dashboard_setup()
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot redeclare wp_dashboard_setup()

 *  [chanzero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chanzero/)
 * (@chanzero)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-redeclare-wp_dashboard_setup/)
 * I upgraded from 2.9.2 to 3 and am now getting this error in a few Dashboard widgets:
 * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_dashboard_setup() (previously declared in /public_html/
   wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php:17) in /public_html/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.
   php on line 117
 * Thank you

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-redeclare-wp_dashboard_setup/#post-1480080)
 * three answers – One is that they shouldn’t have been re-declaring in the first
   place. Two is a trac ticket, listing the plugins that cause the error, for ‘multiple
   declarations of wp_dashboard_setup() causes fatal error’ may not be a bad idea.
   Three is tell the plugin makers. If they’re AWOL, you may have to make the changes
   yourself, though :/

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-redeclare-wp_dashboard_setup/#post-1480080)
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