Title: Sharedaddy: Cannot Activate
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sharedaddy: Cannot Activate

 *  [fineputinpogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fineputinpogo/)
 * (@fineputinpogo)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/)
 * Whenever I try to activate the plugin, I get this:
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION
   or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homepages/13/d106281348/htdocs/yf/wp-content/plugins/sharedaddy/
   sharing.php on line 4

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 *  [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1652934)
 * The plugin is PHP5 only
 *  Thread Starter [fineputinpogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fineputinpogo/)
 * (@fineputinpogo)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1652935)
 * Hmm. I’m not familiar with PHP5, but does this have to do with my server? I use
   1and1.
 * Is there anything I can do?
 * Thanks, John!
 *  [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1652937)
 * Yes, it’s to do with your server – you probably have PHP4. For 1and1 it will 
   be automatically enabled later this year, but there’s an FAQ about enabling PHP5
   yourself:
 * [http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/5.html](http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/5.html)
 *  [serendipitypatchwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serendipitypatchwork/)
 * (@serendipitypatchwork)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1653177)
 * My server uses PHP 5.2.13 and I am also experiencing difficulties activating 
   this plugin. I get the following error message:
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function: plugin_dir_path() in [path]/wp-content/
   plugins/sharedaddy/sharedaddy.php on line 11
 * I can find line 11 in the code but don’t know enough about PHP to fix this
 *  [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1653179)
 * What version of WordPress are you using? It needs to be at least 3.0
 *  [serendipitypatchwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serendipitypatchwork/)
 * (@serendipitypatchwork)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1653180)
 * Thanks John. I thought that might be an issue. I’ll upgrade to the current version
   and see how things go.

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [serendipitypatchwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serendipitypatchwork/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sharedaddy-cannot-activate/#post-1653180)
 * Status: not resolved

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