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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates] starter template broke my WP installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/)
 *  Thread Starter [tilepattern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tilepattern/)
 * (@tilepattern)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/#post-15901730)
 * Hi Hannah,
 * Thanks for taking the time to answer me. My other WP sites are running that older
   PHP version without problem, so it didn’t occur to me that it might be the issue.
   I did change it to PHP 8.0.21 and the customise page is still just showing “you
   are cutomising [sitename]” at the top left — and nothing else.
 * Does the error message “Uncaught SyntaxError: expected expression, got ‘<‘ customize.
   php:6260” mean anything to you, or anyone else reading this?
 * If I just understood _where_ to look for the problem, that would be a good start.
 * Like I said, I replaced the customize.php page with one from a clean install 
   and it made no differene — so how could the problem be this page?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates] starter template broke my WP installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/)
 *  Thread Starter [tilepattern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tilepattern/)
 * (@tilepattern)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/#post-15892778)
 * I’ve got PHP 7.4.30 and WP 6.0.1
 * I can’t stop trying. I thought of looking at the customise page using FF web 
   developer and found this under debugger:
 * `Uncaught SyntaxError: expected expression, got '<' customize.php:6260`
 * I know html and css, but nothing about PHP, so I was hoping I could catch an 
   obvious orphan “<” on that page, but no such luck.
 * Web search turns up nothing comprehensible to me.
 * I’ve been at this for two weeks.
 * I’m afraid I can’t post a link — long story.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by [tilepattern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tilepattern/).
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates] starter template broke my WP installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/)
 *  Thread Starter [tilepattern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tilepattern/)
 * (@tilepattern)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/#post-15891903)
 * Well, I don’t understand what happened — whether it’s an issue with my host, 
   Word Press or something about the Kadence starter template and/or the accompanying
   plugin.
 * I have tried and tried to dig up an answer on the web with no success. I give
   up, and am going to wipe everything and start all over again.
 * Of course, I will constantly worry the blank customise page will suddenly happen
   again, but as I don’t know what caused it in the first place there is nothing
   I can do.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Kadence Starter Templates — Predesigned Website Templates] starter template broke my WP installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/)
 *  Thread Starter [tilepattern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tilepattern/)
 * (@tilepattern)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/starter-template-plugin-broke-my-wp-installation/#post-15884195)
 * Hi Hannah,
 * I had a backup and that didn’t resolve the problem.
 * When I contacted my host, they said I needed to pay one of their developers to
   resolve the problem.
 * I’ve already spent days trying to fix this and there is no money in the budget
   for a developer.
 * Given all that I’ve mentioned trying, can you give me any other information on
   what might be causing a blank customiser?
 * Thanks

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