Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

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Last updated by Bruno Kos 1 year, 9 months ago.

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October 30, 2023 at 1:00 pm #14691561
ya-huiY	I just purchased your product "WPML Multilingual CMS" but can't activate it. The error message is : Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. Fatal error: Cannot redeclare icl_get_home_url() (previously declared in /home/clients/2e340de6c3efb8cf5e867369332c474e/sites/sakyapa.eu/wp-content/plugins/polylang/modules/wpml/wpml-legacy-api.php:21) in /home/clients/2e340de6c3efb8cf5e867369332c474e/sites/sakyapa.eu/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/inc/template-functions.php on line 55 I checked your blog and someone has similar issue, I deleted all of your related plug-ins and reinstalled manually, however, I couldn't activate it anyway. Please help me to solve this problem as soon as possible, thank you.
October 30, 2023 at 1:13 pm #14691839
Bruno Kos WPML Supporter since 12/2018 Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)	Hi, Thank you for contacting WPML support! You need to remove Polylang because it uses the same function names as WPML such as that icl_get_home_url. Regards, Bruno Kos
October 30, 2023 at 1:22 pm #14691891
ya-huiY	Hi Bruno, Thank you for your quick reply. Do you mean I need to deactivate Polylang and activate WPML again, or I need to delete Polylang forever? I have used Polylang to create this website in 6 languages, if I delete Polylang, which means I need to use WPML to make this website in 6 languages again, right?
October 30, 2023 at 2:08 pm #14692721
Bruno Kos WPML Supporter since 12/2018 Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)	I suppose you purchased WPML to replace Polylang given that they both provide the same thing - multilingual site. But you can do this: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/migrate-polylang-wpml/ So migrate your translations from Polylang to WPML by following the above and then remove the Polylang from the site.
October 30, 2023 at 6:41 pm #14694495
ya-huiY	Thank you very much.