Title: [Plugin: WP Simple tabs] Plugin Broken
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Simple tabs] Plugin Broken

 *  [Steven Slack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s2web/)
 * (@s2web)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-simple-tabs-plugin-broken/)
 * Hi, just want to let you know that I couldn’t activate the plugin because it 
   triggered a fatal error. Here is what I saw:
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /…/html/mysite/wp-content/
   plugins/simple-tabs/simple-tabs.php on line 28
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tabs/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tabs/)

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 *  [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * (@kjodle)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-simple-tabs-plugin-broken/#post-3094377)
 * This is probably because the plugin is using an anonymous function and your host
   is running PHP <5.3
 *  Thread Starter [Steven Slack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s2web/)
 * (@s2web)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-simple-tabs-plugin-broken/#post-3094394)
 * Could be…but you can’t expect everyone’s host to be running on PHP 5.3 – you 
   should make a fallback if you are going to be publishing the plugin in the repository.
 *  [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * (@kjodle)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-simple-tabs-plugin-broken/#post-3094402)
 * True. I’m only on 5.2.
 * Keep in mind that’s one common reason. There could be other reasons you are seeing
   that error.

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 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)
 * [syntax error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-error/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [kjodle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjodle/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-simple-tabs-plugin-broken/#post-3094402)
 * Status: not resolved