Title: Parse Error
Last modified: January 18, 2017

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# Parse Error

 *  [thisisaxel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisaxel/)
 * (@thisisaxel)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-425/)
 * Hello there,
    I am having an error using the theme Wortex Lite as follows;
 * **Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘, expecting end of file in /homepages/
   10/d210980848/htdocs/thisisaxel/wordpress/wp-content/themes/wortex-lite/footer.
   php on line 26**
 * All I have done is replace the footer credits code, with my own as follows:
 *     ```
       <a href="http://thisisaxels.wordpress.com">
         <img src="http://thisisaxels.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Wordpress-color.png" alt="Wordpress Blog" style="width:42px;height:42px;border:0;">
       </a>
   
       <a href="http://thisisaxel.blogspot.com">
         <img src="http://thisisaxels.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Blogger-color.png" alt="Origanal Blog" style="width:42px;height:42px;border:0;">
       </a>
   
       <a href="http://twitter.com/axelgreavette">
         <img src="http://thisisaxels.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Twitter-color.png" alt="Current Twitter" style="width:42px;height:42px;border:0;">
       </a>
   
       <a href="http://codepen.io/itzAxel">
         <img src="http://thisisaxels.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Codepen-color.png" alt="Codepen.io" style="width:42px;height:42px;border:0;">
       </a>
   
       <p1> <strong>Copyright 2016 Axel Greavette</strong> <br> Made with love by me <p1>
       ```
   
 * If you see any errors in this code, have a fix or something else please reply.
 * Thank you,
    [[-Axel](http://thisisaxels.com)

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 *  Theme Author [Iceable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iceable/)
 * (@iceable)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-425/#post-8673286)
 * Hello,
 * It is hard to tell for sure without the entire code, but my guess is that it 
   misses a closing php tag before your code (which is pure HTML and therefore comes
   as “unexpected” for the php interpreter).
 * Since your custom code is HTML only, you should add a closing php tag before,
   as well as an opening php tag after it, so it does not break the rest of the 
   php file, like so:
 *     ```
       ?>
   
       [YOUR HTML CODE]
   
       <?php
       ```
   
 * If you still get an error could you please paste the whole code of the modified
   file so I can better help you find what else can be wrong?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [Iceable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iceable/).
 *  Thread Starter [thisisaxel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisaxel/)
 * (@thisisaxel)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-425/#post-8688044)
 * Thank you, but I have now found another theme that works for me. Though your 
   answer was very helpful, I have now erased that html :-(.
 * Thanks anyway…
 * –[Axel](http://thisisaxels.com)

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