Plugin can't be activated due to Parse Error

Hello govsocialmedia,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention however I’m not sure why it is throwing a fatal error. This code has been the same for a few updates, its weird it would throw an error now.

Does this happen if you try to activate it again?

Can I possibly get your wordpress version? I will try to replicate the problem. You said this was freshly installed so I’m assuming you didn’t update from a previous version of the plugin which helps narrow the problem down.

In the meantime, I’ll do some testing on my end, to see if I can reproduce the problem and return with a fix if I can find one.

Thanks for using my plugin and providing feedback!
John

Hello again govsocialmedia,

I did a bunch of testing and could not reproduce the problem. The only time I was able to reproduce this problem is with a PHP environment running on version < 5.4. Can I ask that you confirm your PHP version for your website to make sure it isn’t below 5.4?

If your PHP version is below 5.4, I highly recommend switching hosting providers. PHP 5.4 is really old, and is not even being supported by PHP itself at this point. Any version older than that is risking compatibility issues and most importantly risking security issues.

Thanks again.
John