Title: Broken sidebar.php – syntax error
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Broken sidebar.php – syntax error

 *  [lizziesmallspacepeople](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizziesmallspacepeople/)
 * (@lizziesmallspacepeople)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-sidebarphp-syntax-error/)
 * Hello…this might be a slightly ridiculous question as I have no idea what I am
   doing (it’ll become really apparent when I get to the issue!)
 * I think I’ve broken my site – I was just trying to add some code to the sidebar.
   php and now I get this message:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /var/sites/s/smallspacepeople.com/
   public_html/wp-content/themes/shamrock/include/sidebars.php on line 56
 * Needless to say, I won’t be trying this again, but I have no idea how to fix 
   this. If anyone could help, I’d be eternally grateful. Thank you.

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