Title: Error code & blog is down….  help….
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error code & blog is down…. help….

 *  [smarsel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smarsel/)
 * (@smarsel)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/)
 * My blog is down and I’m getting this error code + I can’t get into the admin 
   panel
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’
 * Any ideas??
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/#post-2590428)
 * Can you provide the full error message?
 *  Thread Starter [smarsel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smarsel/)
 * (@smarsel)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/#post-2590429)
 * Here it is…
 * arse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /home/
   content/s/t/e/stevemar/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/simple-seo/simple-seo.php
   on line 86
 * Thank you!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/#post-2590448)
 * [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) into your site (or use whatever
   file management application your host provides) & delete the wp-content/plugins/
   simple-seo folder.
 *  Thread Starter [smarsel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smarsel/)
 * (@smarsel)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/#post-2590452)
 * That worked perfectly – Thank you!!!!!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/#post-2590464)
 * Glad I could help 🙂

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-code-blog-is-down-help/#post-2590464)
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