Title: Parse error…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Parse error…

 *  [blazzingsapphire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazzingsapphire/)
 * (@blazzingsapphire)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error/)
 * I installed WP successfully, and I attempted to implement the necessary elements
   into my layout (which is still being worked on and is not at swimmachica.org/
   light). I’m a former b2 user and thought I could change over easily. So far, 
   it has been an easy transition but everytime I load my index.php page, I get 
   the following message:
    Parse error: parse error in /home/swimmach/public_html/
   light/index.php on line 83 I’m not too sure what I did wrong. I am no expert 
   on PHP and could use a little help.

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 *  [jonanhold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonanhold/)
 * (@jonanhold)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error/#post-26893)
 * so what’s on line 83 of that file?
    -j
 *  Thread Starter [blazzingsapphire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazzingsapphire/)
 * (@blazzingsapphire)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error/#post-26934)
 * That’s the thing- line 83 is just the </body> tag. I don’t know why that would
   be causing a problem.
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error/#post-26935)
 * Is there another tag that didn’t get closed that should have? Also, try saving
   index.php to index.backup and uploading a fresh copy of index.php to confirm 
   that index.php is really the culprit.

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error/#post-26935)
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