Title: Syntax error: Website down. Please help! Last modified: September 29, 2016 --- # Syntax error: Website down. Please help! * Resolved [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/) * Hi all, * I was trying to add a small code in my functions.php file in the excerpt section, and now I can’t get my site back. I have tried to re-upload my functions file in my FileZilla, but nothing is working! * my site is: [http://www.thestyledpress.com](http://www.thestyledpress.com) * Any help appreciated. I don’t know what to do at this point. Thanks! - This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/). Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232724) * It looks like you no longer have a functions.php file — the one from WordPress core is missing. * Download a fresh copy of wordpress from wordpress.org. Unzip locally and upload wp-includes/functions.php to wp-includes on your server using FTP. * NEVER edit core files! * [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/) * (@bhawanvirk) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232726) * can you post some of the code you modified? * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232731) * ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // THE EXCERPT////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 200; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’,‘ custom_excerpt_length’, 999 ); * function sp_string_limit_words($string, $word_limit) { $words = explode(‘ ‘, $string, ($word_limit + 1)); * if(count($words) > $word_limit) { array_pop($words); } * return implode(‘ ‘, $words); } * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232735) * Steve, will I have to start everything from scratch after doing so? * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232736) * No, just replace the file you deleted. and NEVER EVER EVER (ever) edit core files. * If you must edit theme files, create a child theme. * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232745) * Thank you for your prompt responses, Steve. I have done what you said, and now I have just one error message. * “**Fatal error: Cannot redeclare is_ssl() (previously declared in /home/thesty28/ public_html/wp-includes/load.php:964) in /home/thesty28/public_html/wp-includes/ functions.php on line 3758**” * [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/) * (@bhawanvirk) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232760) * replace load.php in wp-includes folder with the one that you have just downloaded. * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232770) * Now I have this error: * ” Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_convert_hr_to_bytes() in /home/ thesty28/public_html/wp-includes/default-constants.php on line 32″ * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232772) * Replace default-constants.php with the new one? * [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/) * (@bhawanvirk) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232780) * it looks like the copy of wordpress that you have downloaded is old. Here are links to the current version of load.php and functions.php that you should try: * load.php : [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/load.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/load.php) * functions.php : [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/functions.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/functions.php) * hit the raw button on both pages and copy paste the code in corresponding files * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232795) * I appreciate you helping me out with this! * Now my site reads this- * “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare is_wp_error() (previously declared in /home/thesty28/ public_html/wp-includes/load.php:1068) in /home/thesty28/public_html/wp-includes/ class-wp-error.php on line 218” * [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/) * (@bhawanvirk) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232798) * replace class-wp-error.php too 🙂 * [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/class-wp-error.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/class-wp-error.php) * if this works then i would highly recommend you to update your wordpress from admin panel - This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/). * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232808) * My error now reads * “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/thesty28/public_html/wp-content/ themes/rosemary/functions.php on line 295” * this was the first error I got when I tried to change the code! I think that means we are on the right track. 🙂 * [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/) * (@bhawanvirk) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232809) * yes now the core looks fine, just delete that extra curly brace from your themes functions.php file on line 295 * Thread Starter [taymbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taymbrown/) * (@taymbrown) * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/#post-8232829) * ahhh 🙁 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Syntax error: Website down. Please help!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Crash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crash/) * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 21 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [sherri1562](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherri1562/) * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/#post-8260889) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics