Title: Plugin Activation Fatal Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin Activation Fatal Error

 *  [joncar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joncar/)
 * (@joncar)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-activation-fatal-error-2/)
 * When I try to activate the plugin I get this response:
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
 * Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed in /home/hotgymna/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/FollowButton.php on line 84
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-follow-button-shortcode/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-follow-button-shortcode/)
 * I’m using wordpress version 3.6.1

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 * Last reply from: [joncar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joncar/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-activation-fatal-error-2/)
 * Status: not resolved