Title: Error in Single.php?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error in Single.php?

 *  [craigm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craigm/)
 * (@craigm)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-singlephp/)
 * It was working, and suddenly it doesn’t. Here’s the error:
 * “Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘*’ in /home/lucy/public_html/wp-content/
   themes/default/single.php on line 23”
 * I haven’t touched this single.php file!

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-singlephp/#post-205256)
 * Line 23 in the default’s single.php is a quote line. It’s probably this in your
   copy:
 * `<?php * This is commented`…
 * but needs to be:
 * `<?php /* This is commented`…

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 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-in-singlephp/#post-205256)
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