Title: Fatal error upon plugin activation
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Fatal error upon plugin activation

 *  [cassian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cassian/)
 * (@cassian)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-upon-plugin-activation-2/)
 * Hello,
 * I have installed the Give plugin, but each time I go to activate it, it gives
   me this message:
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Fatal error:
   Call to undefined function give_get_settings() in /home/cassianpeterman/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/give/give.php on line 264
 * I am using the Avada theme, but have already tried changing to a different theme,
   but the problem still occurs. None of the the other plugins I activate give me
   this problem.
 * Does anyone know how to go about fixing this?
    Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/give/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/give/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Devin Walker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlocc/)
 * (@dlocc)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-upon-plugin-activation-2/#post-7407760)
 * Hey [@cassian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cassian/) – that’s strange–
   The function `give_get_settings` is included right before that line 264 [https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/blob/master/give.php#L263](https://github.com/WordImpress/Give/blob/master/give.php#L263)
 * Did you FTP the plugin to your server or are you installing from the plugin directory
   within WordPress’ admin?
 *  Thread Starter [cassian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cassian/)
 * (@cassian)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-upon-plugin-activation-2/#post-7407936)
 * Hello, thanks for the response. I’ve been trying to install it from within the
   WordPress admin. Should I try installing it through FileZilla?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Devin Walker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlocc/)
 * (@dlocc)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-upon-plugin-activation-2/#post-7407938)
 * That’s really strange you’re getting an error trying to install from the WordPress
   admin. I haven’t heard any other reports of that. If that’s not working then 
   I would either download it from WordPress.org and use the upload functionality
   within the WP-admin or yes, use FTP via Filezilla or your favorite client, to
   upload it manually.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Devin Walker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlocc/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-upon-plugin-activation-2/#post-7407938)
 * Status: not resolved