Title: Parse Errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Parse Errors

 *  [skittle61](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skittle61/)
 * (@skittle61)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-2/)
 * My website just recently started messing up last night. I did not update or anything,
   really, it just started popping up these error messages. The actual web page 
   gives this message when opened…
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/yousou5/public_html/index.
   php on line 17
 * I tried opening the wp-admin dashboard and poke around only to find this error
   message popping up at me…
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_REQUIRE_ONCE in /home/yousou5/public_html/
   wp-admin/index.php on line 13
 * I have looked over the code in each file and can’t quite figure out what is wrong.
   I’m not even entirely sure which version of WordPress I’m using as I can’t log
   into the admin page to look! It should be pretty recent, however. Let me know
   what code I can copy in here and I will, I hope someone can figure it out as 
   my site has been down all night.

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 *  Thread Starter [skittle61](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skittle61/)
 * (@skittle61)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-2/#post-1978455)
 * As a matter of fact, let me just post the code that seems to be the culprit.
 * [http://www.yousoundlikearobot.com](http://www.yousoundlikearobot.com)
 *     ```
       define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   
       /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
       require('./wp-blog-header.php');
       ```
   
 * The wp-admin page seems to be pointing at these lines of code.
 *     ```
       /** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
       require_once('admin.php');
   
       /** Load WordPress dashboard API */
       require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php');
       ```
   
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-2/#post-1978464)
 * Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder – from
   a **fresh** download of your version of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [skittle61](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skittle61/)
 * (@skittle61)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-2/#post-1978534)
 * That seemed to work after a bit of troubleshooting to find out that Simple Tags
   is no longer supported. I’ll have to find something new to that regard, all seems
   well otherwise though.
 * Thanks. 🙂

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## Tags

 * [parse-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parse-error/)
 * [T_STRING](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/t_string/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [skittle61](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skittle61/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-2/#post-1978534)
 * Status: not resolved

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