Title: error  during theme activation
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# error during theme activation

 *  [SpinoWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spinoweb/)
 * (@spinoweb)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-during-theme-activation/)
 * When I try to activate the theme, I obtain this error:
 * `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /www.mywebsite.com/wp-content/
   themes/zerif-lite/inc/jetpack.php on line 1`

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 *  [Hardeep Asrani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hardeepasrani/)
 * (@hardeepasrani)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-during-theme-activation/#post-7975639)
 * Hi,
 * Did you use FTP to install the theme to your server? If yes then your FTP software
   messed up the mark up of the file.
 * In that case, please delete the theme from /wp-content/themes/ folder and then
   install it using the Theme Installer, following this tutorial: [http://docs.themeisle.com/article/4-how-to-install-wordpress-themes](http://docs.themeisle.com/article/4-how-to-install-wordpress-themes)
 * Let me know if it works. 🙂
 * Regards,
    Hardeep

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