Title: Parse error after updating plugins
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Parse error after updating plugins

 *  Resolved [raworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raworth/)
 * (@raworth)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-after-updating-plugins/)
 * I just updated two plugins, apparently successfully. When I tried make a new 
   post, I simply got:
 * Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /home/
   a/1/0/13560/13560/public_html/notes/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/functions/
   backup.files.functions.php on line 148
 * This is meaningless to me. Is it possible to simply delete the plugin?
    I get
   the same error message when trying [http://tomraworth.com/notes/wp-admin/post-new.php](http://tomraworth.com/notes/wp-admin/post-new.php)
   or [http://tomraworth.com/notes/index.html](http://tomraworth.com/notes/index.html)
 * I thought to simply update to 3.1.3…. but I see before I do that I have to deactivate
   plugins… and I have no access to do so.
 * Any help would be appreciated: I checked topics, and saw several “Parse error”
   entries, but none completely relevant.

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 *  Thread Starter [raworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raworth/)
 * (@raworth)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-after-updating-plugins/#post-2110096)
 * I took a chance and FTPd into my server and deleted the whole backupwordpress
   folder from plug-ins. The parse error has gone, and I’m able to both access the
   site, and make new posts. Problem at least temporarily solved.

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