Title: fatal error message installing plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# fatal error message installing plugins

 *  [nostawft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nostawft/)
 * (@nostawft)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-message-installing-plugins/)
 * When I tried to activate the Sidebar Widget, I got this error message:
 * **Fatal error: Cannot redeclare register_sidebars() (previously declared in /
   home/discous0/public_html/blog/wp-includes/widgets.php:15) in /home/discous0/
   public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/widgets.php on line 42**
 * When I go into my WP cPanel/Presentation/Widgets, as soon as I open up that page,
   it gives me the same error message…
 * Can you tell me how to edit the code to get rid of this error message?…I see 
   I can do it from my WordPress cPanel/Plugins page, or from my BlueHost.com cPanel…
 * This error is keeping my Google Search box, and the del.icio.us widget from showing
   up too…I think?…
 * Thanks in advance,
    Tom

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