Title: HTTP Error 500 after editing functions.php
Last modified: November 4, 2017

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# HTTP Error 500 after editing functions.php

 *  [arton8](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arton8/)
 * (@arton8)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-editing-functions-php/)
 * Hi,
 * I added a small piece of code to the functions.php file of my child theme and
   then all of a sudden my website went down and I’m also unable to log-in to it
   with /wp-admin. I get an HHTP error 500 everytime I try to go to /wp-admin.
 * How can I fix this ?
 * Thank you

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-editing-functions-php/#post-9650814)
 * Undo the change(s) you made.
 * Download functions.php via FTP or through your hosting control panel, remove 
   the changes, and upload the file replacing the bad one.
 * NEVER EVER EVER EVER (ever? ever!) use appearance->editor to edit PHP files because…
   well you now know why.

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