Help Please – Site Stopped Working: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}'

Okay, so I went in and deleted the curly brace in the “Like” plugin folder that was creating a parsing error (I know nothing about PHP, so…).

Now I get THIS error message:

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’ in /home/content/72/4192772/html/blog/wp-content/themes/platform/sections/wp/section.content.php on line 41

and here’s what that file looks like:

(starting at line 39)

End of section class
*/DMIN_ICONS . '/document.png'
		);

	   parent::__construct($name, $id, $settings);
   }

   function section_template() {
		// included in theme root for easy editing.
		get_template_part( 'template.content' );
	}

}

/*
	End of section class
*/

Anyone know what to do about this? Please advise.

I got it to start working again after deleting the “Platform” theme via FTP (using Adobe “DreamWeaver”). Of course, I had to go back through and remember to reinstall the plugins I used before, as WP uninstalled them all for some reason. But most of their settings were automatically remembered (not sure how that works). Now if this could just stop happening every 6 months or so, that would be great.

Thanks for the help Matthew!

I downloaded all the plugin folders to my local computer, then deleted them all from the server. But when I would move a folder back to the server from my local machine, they didn’t just “appear” or install. So I had to re-search for them all, install them through the WP Admin Plugin tab.

Still, for some reason that I don’t understand, usually most of my info and settings were auto-populated after re-installing the plugins, even though their folders should have been new and clean installs.

Am I missing something that would’ve made this easier?

I never deleted the folder named “plugins”. I just deleted all the subfolders (individual plugin folders) from the server when WP uninstalled them all — and after backing them up to my local machine.

I’m not sure why they don’t just reinstall when I upload them back to the server (if that’s how they’ve worked in your experience?), but it’s never been that easy for me, and this isn’t the first time I’ve tried doing that.

Could be… Next time (hopefully there is no “next time”, but…) I’ll try to remember this and use the GoDaddy ftp service.