Well I ended up uninstalling all of WordPress, completely. Reinstalled WP then deactivated all plugins, downloaded WriteShare, and still ended up with the same error. I can’t imagine the issue.
Prior to doing the reinstall of WP, I did confirm that the default theme was installed and active.
I’m certainly at a loss.
I do use GoDaddy as my domain host. They actually perform the install of WordPress. Not sure if that affects anything.
Thanks again for the assistance!
I went ahead and ensured all plugins were deactivated (they have been on prior attempts). Upon attempting to activate WriteShare, it still kicked back the same parse error.
The plugins are: Akismet Anti-Spam, Welcome to WordPress, WP Downgrade, WP Rollback, & WriteShare Writing Community Platform.
Only other option I can think of is removing WP altogether and starting fresh again. I have rolled WP back to 4.9.3 and had the same results. Unfortunately.
Thank you for the help!