Title: Fatal error: Call to undefined function
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Fatal error: Call to undefined function

 *  [mayreee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayreee/)
 * (@mayreee)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-1/)
 * I get this error when I try to add a new category in the admin…
    Fatal error:
   Call to undefined function: wp_specialchars() in /home/mayreee/public_html/wp/
   wp-admin/categories.php on line 49 Anyone have any ideas? ALSO I did do a search
   on it and found no posts that help.

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 *  Thread Starter [mayreee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayreee/)
 * (@mayreee)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-1/#post-122597)
 * Anyone?

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