Title: Syntax Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Syntax Error

 *  Resolved [PoohAg95](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poohag95/)
 * (@poohag95)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/)
 * I’m using the News Child theme, and I’m not sure what I did, but I did something
   wrong and now getting a message that says:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/musingsf/public_html/www.dellbillings.
   com/wp-content/themes/news/functions.php on line 146
 * I cannot log back into the account to try to fix the mistake and the website 
   is down as well. Any ideas on what I can do?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/#post-1824996)
 * Download a fresh copy of the theme, extract the functions.php file and upload
   it up to your wp-content/themes/news-child folder using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)(
   or whatever file management application your host provides).
 *  Thread Starter [PoohAg95](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poohag95/)
 * (@poohag95)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/#post-1825009)
 * THANK YOU for your help. Got it back up and running.
 * And didn’t mean to double post. Didn’t realize I did it until after I started
   getting notifications from two places. Dumb move of the morning for me.
 * Is there a way to delete a post here?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/#post-1825031)
 * I’ve closed the other thread.
 *  [norcalrunning](https://wordpress.org/support/users/norcalrunning/)
 * (@norcalrunning)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/#post-1825413)
 * Thanks so much for this help from both posts! Greiz response really helped me
   figure this out. I am not techie at all – i shouldn’t even have been messing 
   with the code.
 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/#post-1825414)
 * Please mark thread as resolved so that
 * – others with similar problem can see it as resolved and will read this thread
   for help if they have similar problem
 * – people providing help see it as resolved and will not waste time reading this
   post.

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 * 5 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-20/#post-1825414)
 * Status: resolved

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