wpsnoop Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages()

If you are dealing with a WordPress issue where a PHP Function showadminmessages() was already declared it is most likely due to a plugin/theme conflict.

wpsnoop scanned and analyzed over 100,000 WordPress plugins and themes to find and locate potential conflicts including functions that share the same name.

This page has information on the 14 places where that function is declared and used in WordPress plugins and themes.

Note: Our database currently only taps into the free themes and plugins available in the publicly available WordPress plugins and themes, if your site uses paid plugins, themes or custom code there may be additional conflicts.


Our database has uncovered 14 different instances of potential conflicts where different plugins or themes share the function name.

Examples of this error include:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/easy-digital-download-recurring-labels/edd-recurring-labels.php:45)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin EDD Recurring Payment Labels and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/smugmug-responsive-slider/pyd-smugmug_slider.php:117)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin SmugMug Responsive Slider and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/newsletter-campaign/newsletter-campaign.php:62)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Newsletter Campaign and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/website-reviewpilot-review-invite/inc/reviewpilot-funct.php:13)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin website Review pilot review invite and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/my-blog-guest/includes/register.php:110)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin MyBlogGuest and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/feedweb/feedweb.php:399)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Feedweb and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/hiyalife/plugins/hiyapublish.php:280)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Hiyalife plugin and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/mata-hoygan/mata_HOYGAN.php:1755)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Mata HOYGAN and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-upload-my-file/inc/umf-funct.php:24)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin WooCommerce Upload My File and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/ivn-publish/ivn.php:830)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin IVN Publish and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/loginwall-for-wp-beta/loginwall.php:512)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin LoginWall and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/warn-other-admins/woa.php:17)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Warn Other Admins and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/criptopay-wp/class-wc-criptopay.php:51)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin CriptoPay Bitcoin and Altcoins Payments for Woocommerce and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare showadminmessages() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/nameday/nameday.php:268)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Nameday and could be interacting with another theme or plugin and causing a fatal error.

The error occurs because two (or more) plugins that you are using are both trying to declare a function with the same name.