Not sure what I did wrong. Been a while since I worked with plugins. I threw the denizen.jar file into the plugins folder and ran the server:
[18:32:59 INFO]: [Denizen] Enabling Denizen v1.3.0-SNAPSHOT (build 1804-REL)
[18:32:59 INFO]: +> [DenizenCore] Initializing Denizen Core v1.91.0-SNAPSHOT (Build 1378), impl for Spigot v1.3.0-SNAPSHOT (build 1804-REL)
[18:32:59 INFO]: +> [Denizen] Running on java version: 18.0.2.1
[18:32:59 WARN]: [Denizen] Running unreliable future Java version. modern Minecraft versions are built for Java 17. Other Java versions are not guaranteed to function properly.
[18:32:59 ERROR]: Error occurred while enabling Denizen v1.3.0-SNAPSHOT (build 1804-REL) (Is it up to date?)
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