Title: [Plugin: WordSocial] cant activate plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordSocial] cant activate plugin

 *  [spitikos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spitikos/)
 * (@spitikos)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordsocial-cant-activate-plugin/)
 * when i a ctivate the plugin it says this:
 * Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Facebook needs the 
   CURL PHP extension.’ in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\wordsocial\
   inc\facebook\base_facebook.php:19 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-
   content\plugins\wordsocial\inc\facebook\facebook.php(18): require_once() #1 C:\
   xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\wordsocial\wso_config.php(28): require_once(‘
   C:\xampp\htdocs…’) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\wordsocial\
   wordsocial.php(28): require_once(‘C:\xampp\htdocs…’) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\
   wp-admin\plugins.php(146): include(‘C:\xampp\htdocs…’) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\
   wp-admin\plugins.php(148): plugin_sandbox_scrape(‘wordsocial/word…’) #5 {main}
   thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\wordsocial\inc\facebook\
   base_facebook.php on line 19
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordsocial/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordsocial/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tommy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akisbis/)
 * (@akisbis)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordsocial-cant-activate-plugin/#post-2641075)
 * Actually, you need to enable/install CURL extension on your webserver to use 
   WordSocial.
 * Facebook needs it

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 * [WordSocial](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordsocial/)
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 * Last reply from: [Tommy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akisbis/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordsocial-cant-activate-plugin/#post-2641075)
 * Status: not resolved