Title: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character

 *  Resolved [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enungman/)
 * (@enungman)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/)
 * `Saving failed: AJAX call failed: parsererror - SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected
   character. Try again while holding down the “Shift” key.`
 * The table has been working fine for quite some time, but all of a sudden this
   comes upp when adding one new row and trying to save.. Help?! 😐
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 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enungman/)
 * (@enungman)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/#post-3902181)
 * Holding down “shift” gives me the exact same error by the way..
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/#post-3902203)
 * Hi Thomas,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * This means that another plugin or the theme is interfering with the table saving,
   most likely by hooking into the saving of a post in WordPress and manipulating
   the content. PHP can then no longer decode the JSON format :-/
 * To fix this, I recommend to deactivate all plugins except TablePress and to switch
   to the WordPress default theme TwentyTwelve. Then activate the other plugins 
   again, one by one, and each time check if the error happens again. With that 
   method, you can find the plugin that causes this and we can look into ways to
   fix this.
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enungman/)
 * (@enungman)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/#post-3902207)
 * Seems to be a conflict with the latest upgrade of “WordPress Jetpack”.
 * There’s some kind of “GoDaddy”-reference in there somewhere that once in a while
   causes an errormessage at the same time as the tablepress error, but i can live
   without that plugin (it’s in the “share”-function).
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/#post-3902219)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for investigating this! Good to hear that you found a probable cause!
   
   Can you give me some more details on these findings, i.e. where you found that“
   GoDaddy” reference, and what that other error message is? Maybe I can find the
   problem in the Jetpack code with the help of that information. Thanks!
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enungman/)
 * (@enungman)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/#post-3902229)
 * I’ll copy it for you next time i see it 🙂
    I didn’t exactly find the godaddy
   reference per say, but the errormessage itself mentioned godaddy.
 * Now all of a sudden this comes up too when i try to re-save the table `Fatal 
   error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 
   bytes) in /storage/content/70/*/*/public_html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line
   1415`
    Where * is the exakt domain of course..
 * I’ll keep investigating 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-jsonparse-unexpected-character/#post-3902291)
 * Hi,
 * yes, that would be great, if that error message comes up again.
 * Regarding the new error: That means that the PHP process on the server reaches
   the allowed memory limit, which can happen if you are using many plugins, for
   example. The easiest fix would be to increase the limit, by following the instructions
   in the Codex at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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