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 5 replies - 16 through 20 (of 20 total)

[←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/?output_format=md)
[1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/?output_format=md)
2

 *  [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/)
 * (@bhawanvirk)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/#post-8232834)
 * it looks like you have replaced your core functions.php file with your theme’s
   functions.php file. Make sure you’re changing directories in your ftp client 
   when uploading these files.
 * After fixing the curly brace problem, upload your theme’s function.php file in
   this directory (wp-content/themes/rosemary/)
 * and then again download core functions.php file from here:
    [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/functions.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/functions.php)
 * and put that in wp-includes/
 *  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/page/2/#post-8232870)
 * Thank you, that makes sense. Okay, now I have this error:
 * “Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_wp_error() in /home/thesty28/public_html/
   wp-includes/load.php on line 434”
 * To be clear, this is the line it is talking about:
 *  if ( is_wp_error( $prefix ) ) {
 * Am I removing the “{” symbol at the end?
 *  [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/)
 * (@bhawanvirk)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/#post-8232880)
 * no please don’t edit load.php file, just grab the code from here:
 * [https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/load.php](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/load.php)
 * and replace it. I think you have accidentally uploaded old load.php file 🙂
 *  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/page/2/#post-8232901)
 * IT’S FIXED!!! 🙂
 * Wow, I can’t thank you enough! I would have had no idea what to do.
 * Thank you so much!!
 *  [bhawanvirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhawanvirk/)
 * (@bhawanvirk)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/page/2/#post-8232905)
 * No worries 🙂

Viewing 5 replies - 16 through 20 (of 20 total)

[←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/?output_format=md)
[1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-website-down-please-help/?output_format=md)
2

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