wpsnoop Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content()

If you are dealing with a WordPress issue where a PHP Function welcome_screen_content() 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 11 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 11 different instances of potential conflicts where different plugins or themes share the function name.

Examples of this error include:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-excel/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:44)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/picu/backend/includes/picu-welcome-screen.php:63)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-amaze/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:40)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-craft/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:41)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-design/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:42)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-excel/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:44)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-max/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:41)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-one/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:42)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/distinctpress/admin/theme_welcome.php:46)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/themes/i-craft/inc/theme-welcome/theme-welcome.php:41)

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

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare welcome_screen_content() (previously declared in wp-content/plugins/zeus-admin-theme/zeus-admin-theme.php:84)

This file is part of the WordPress plugin Zeus Admin Theme 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.