{"id":1216037,"date":"2017-01-10T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/plugin-could-not-be-activated-because-it-triggered-a-fatal-error-4\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:30:24","slug":"plugin-could-not-be-activated-because-it-triggered-a-fatal-error-4","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/plugin-could-not-be-activated-because-it-triggered-a-fatal-error-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed or rather updated both from my Dashboard Updates page:<\/p>\n<p>Version 4.4.0.1 The Events Calendar<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nVersion 4.4 The Events Calendar PRO<\/p>\n<p>both updated successfully<br \/>\nwent to visit site and error 500s<br \/>\nalso could not get to admin page any more<\/p>\n<p>Deleted both Plugins using my 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