Title: SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token '
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token '

 *  [jezthomp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jezthomp/)
 * (@jezthomp)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-json-parse-error-unrecognized-token/)
 * I’m getting the following error on custom post types and yes they are hierarchical…
 * SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token ‘<‘
    [http://website.co.uk/new/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load%5B%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=4.3.1](http://website.co.uk/new/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load%5B%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=4.3.1)
   line 5
 * Console…
 * SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token ‘<‘
    parseload-scripts.php:
   1656:266 parseJSONload-scripts.php:1656:266 parseJSONload-scripts.php:3235:450
   update_simple_ordering_callbacksimple-page-ordering.js:1:118 jload-scripts.php:
   1005 fireWithload-scripts.php:1050 xload-scripts.php:1829 bload-scripts.php:1918:
   265
 * Any ideas, it does re-order but just hands with the spinny icon.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/)

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 *  [Joshua David Nelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuadnelson/)
 * (@joshuadnelson)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-json-parse-error-unrecognized-token/#post-6715555)
 * I’m getting this error as well. It just spins, I have to reload the page after
   each drag-and-drop. Mine are not hierarchical (using ‘page-attributes’ instead).

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 * Last reply from: [Joshua David Nelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuadnelson/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-json-parse-error-unrecognized-token/#post-6715555)
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