Title: urgent please help- Parse error.. themefunctions.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# urgent please help- Parse error.. themefunctions.php

 *  [selflearnla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selflearnla/)
 * (@selflearnla)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am having the worst afternoon. I am new at this and after having a few successful
   months at wordpress I have run into a huge error and hope I haven’t compromised
   my blog.
 * I was attempting to edit my themefunctions.php file via theme editor with some
   new code I found that I thought would help me limit the lenth of my posts. And
   following the edit, I received this error message:
 * **Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/selflearnla/selflearnla.
   org/wp-content/themes/oulipo/functions.php on line 3**
 * The same message appears when I attempt to access my admin panel.
 * I appreciate any assistance with this.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/#post-1757448)
 * Download a fresh copy of your theme to your computer, Open the archive and extract
   functions.php. Upload this file to your wp-content/themes/theme_name folder using
   [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) (or use whatever file management
   application your host provides).
 *  Thread Starter [selflearnla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selflearnla/)
 * (@selflearnla)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/#post-1757455)
 * I believe that my file file management system is phpmyadmin or mysql.
 * Do you know how I can access the functions.php folder using which ever of these?
 *  Thread Starter [selflearnla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selflearnla/)
 * (@selflearnla)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/#post-1757459)
 * Is it too late to become connected with an FTP like Filezilla?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/#post-1757461)
 * > I believe that my file file management system is phpmyadmin or mysql.
 * No – Phpmyadmin is your database management tool. MySQL is your database server.
 * > Is it too late to become connected with an FTP like Filezilla?
 * It’s never too late to start using FTP and Filezilla is an excellent free FTP
   client.
 *  Thread Starter [selflearnla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selflearnla/)
 * (@selflearnla)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/#post-1757474)
 * Thanks so much, back in business. This troubleshoot has demystified a few things
   4 me.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-please-help-parse-error-themefunctionsphp/#post-1757475)
 * > back in business
 * Excellent! 🙂

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