Title: Fatal Error While Activation yoast
Last modified: April 9, 2021

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# Fatal Error While Activation yoast

 *  Resolved [mittalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mittalk/)
 * (@mittalk)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/)
 * Hi,
 * I am Facing same issue all of sudden fatal error
    When the site went down i got
   yoast plugin clash
 * All Of sudden site went down so i deactivated plugin in safe mode but yoast seo
   cant be activated now
 * Fatal error: Namespace declaration statement has to be the very first statement
   or after any declare call in the script in /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/
   src/integrations/watchers/indexable-home-page-watcher.php on line 3
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by [mittalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mittalk/).

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 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/#post-14297501)
 * Hello,
 * We are sorry you are unable to activate the Yoast SEO plugin. Can you please 
   let us know what version of WordPress you have?
 *  Thread Starter [mittalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mittalk/)
 * (@mittalk)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/#post-14297759)
 * Hi
 * I am using wordpress 5.7
 *  Thread Starter [mittalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mittalk/)
 * (@mittalk)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/#post-14297835)
 * it use to work fine just all of sudden its stopped working after update yesterday
 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/#post-14297930)
 * Can you please delete the plugin and re-install it again? Then check if the errors
   still occur.
 *  Thread Starter [mittalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mittalk/)
 * (@mittalk)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/#post-14297936)
 * Hi,
 * I Did that in worked thanks 🙂

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-while-activation-yoast/#post-14297936)
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