Title: Parse error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Parse error

 *  Resolved [Ayesha S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishas/)
 * (@aishas)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-107/)
 * Hi,
 * I’d really appreciate if someone can help me with this. My WordPress site has
   gone down and it gives me this error:
 * **Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/ramesa/public_html/networkq/
   wp-content/themes/premiumnews/includes/theme-widgets.php on line 3**
 * Which is strange because there isn’t any code on the theme-widgets.php page. 
   I haven’t added/subtracted any code. How can I fix this problem?
 * Thank you.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-107/#post-2298774)
 * Try switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder
   in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)
   or whatever file management application your host provides.
 *  Thread Starter [Ayesha S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishas/)
 * (@aishas)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-107/#post-2298997)
 * Thanks very much. That solved my problem. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Ayesha S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aishas/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-107/#post-2298997)
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