Title: 'Parse error: syntax error …' Site doesn't work no more.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# 'Parse error: syntax error …' Site doesn't work no more.

 *  [SophieHolterman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieholterman/)
 * (@sophieholterman)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-site-doesnt-work-no-more/)
 * Hi,
 * I tried to put a Facebook Like Box on to my website, but it didn’t work out as
   I hoped to (I got two boxes of which one was a default design en the other one
   was the good one, but it was in the wrong position, all the way down on the left.
   Maybe you can help me with this too?). I wanted to undo it, but now I get this
   every time I click somewhere, and also when I just try to open my website:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/sophie/domains/sophieholterman.
   nl/public_html/wp-content/themes/birdsite/functions.php on line 3
 * Well, it tells that there’s a ‘<‘ somewhere wrong in functions.php, but I can’t
   go there to check, because I get this message all the time. What can I do? I’m
   in big panic now, because my website is inaccesible! Please help me! 🙁
 * My website: [http://www.sophieholterman.nl](http://www.sophieholterman.nl)

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-site-doesnt-work-no-more/#post-2543265)
 * Use FTP or a ‘File Manager’ from your hosting service to edit the functions.php
   file in your theme folder.
 * If you don’t know how to edit it, put the code into a [pastebin](http://pastebin.com)
   and post a link to it here.
 *  Thread Starter [SophieHolterman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieholterman/)
 * (@sophieholterman)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-site-doesnt-work-no-more/#post-2543340)
 * Well, I’m learning fast but this is still too complicated for me, haha.
    Glad
   you’re here to help. I pasted the whole code into [my pastebin](http://pastebin.com/0kEJ9rKL).
 * Thanks in advance and, if this is solved, could you help me with the Facebook
   Like Box too? If that’s too much trouble, it doesn’t matter, I can do without,
   but people were asking for it 😉
 *  Thread Starter [SophieHolterman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophieholterman/)
 * (@sophieholterman)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-site-doesnt-work-no-more/#post-2543341)
 * Wow, never mind, I just did it! My website is back online! Thank you so much 
   for your help!

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-site-doesnt-work-no-more/#post-2543341)
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