Title: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'the_post_thumbnail' (T_STRING)
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'the_post_thumbnail' (T_STRING)

 *  [myownnamebrand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myownnamebrand/)
 * (@myownnamebrand)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-the_post_thumbnail-t_string/)
 * Please bear with me. I am a complete NOOB when it comes to wordpress. I have 
   a managed wordpress account.
 * I was fooling around in the functions.php of my wp theme, and I must have cut
   and paste wrong coding into it and ended up with a blank white screen. I disabled
   the plug-ins in phpmyadmin and now have this when I try to log into my wp-admin
   dashboard:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘the_post_thumbnail’ (T_STRING) in /home/
   content/p3pnexwpnas09_data03/25/2509625/html/wp-content/themes/Caravan/functions.
   php on line 634
 * So I know I have to delete the code I entered, but I do not know how to do this
   in phpmyadmin. I know I have to look for functions.php folder. I do not see this
   anywhere. I see something like these:
    wp_f3v3xxhmwc_commentmeta wp_f3v3xxhmwc_comments
   wp_f3v3xxhmwc_links wp_f3v3xxhmwc_options
 * I am pretty sure what I am looking for is in the options folder, but I do not
   know what to do from here. When I search it, I don’t see anything that says function.
   php or themes.php and I’m not sure where I can pull up the file so that I can
   manually delete the incorrect coding.
 * Any help is appreciated. Thanks for your patience.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-the_post_thumbnail-t_string/#post-5897363)
 * I’d suggest downloading a new copy of your theme to your local computer and then
   using FTP or Cpanel, replacing the functions.php file here:
 *     ```
       wp-content
           themes
              Caravan
                  functions.php
       ```
   
 * Theme files aren’t in your database.

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