Title: Syntax error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Syntax error

 *  [steeleweed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steeleweed/)
 * (@steeleweed)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-86/)
 * I have a page with code starting
 * <?php
    ….. When I save the page, a blank is inserted between the < and the ?php.
 * One site does not do this and the code works. Another site with SAME code has
   this problem. Both sites use same theme.
 * Also there’s a miscode that is ignored.
    echo “</form>”; should be echo ‘</form?’;
   but it works with the quote instead of the apostrophe, although it shouldn’t.
 * Note when I deleted the code in the failing site and copied from the working 
   site. , I got echo “”; where the </form> statement should be.
 * The WP edit is being interfered with by exec-phpz?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/exec-php/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/exec-php/)

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