Title: PHP version requirement for WP Essentials plugin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# PHP version requirement for WP Essentials plugin

 *  Resolved [scogie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scogie/)
 * (@scogie)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-requirement-for-wp-essentials-plugin/)
 * Looks like you need to be running at least PHP version 5.3 for this plugin. I’m
   running multisite on bluehost and after installing the plugin was unable to access
   my network admin site. A blank screen was returned in my browser. An Error log
   showed PHP, Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION on line 4 of cleanup.
   php which shows: `add_action('init',function() {` I updated from PHP ver 5.2 
   to PHP ver 5.3 and that resolved my challenge.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-essentials/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-essentials/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Craig F.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iprogressltd/)
 * (@iprogressltd)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-requirement-for-wp-essentials-plugin/#post-4035391)
 * Thanks scogie for reporting that.
 * I’ve updated that code so it should work for 5.2 now.

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 * Last reply from: [Craig F.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iprogressltd/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-version-requirement-for-wp-essentials-plugin/#post-4035391)
 * Status: resolved