How to Fix White Screen of death

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘(‘ is telling you there’s an extra ( or something missing that makes the ( redundant in your code. Look at the referenced line and see if you can debug it.

If possible, paste this file somewhere (like pastebin) and post the link here. I can take a look and see what’s causing issue.

Hi,

Here’s the link to the code:

Thanks for your offer to help.

Are you sure this is the correct file? This seems to be alright.

Did you copy this via FTP?

I copied it from the Appearance > editor > functions.php

I have changed some other files but this one always gives me white screen. I don’t even see anything on the line 8 which it says has the error :S

<?php
// Exit if accessed directly
if ( !defined('ABSPATH')) exit;

/* Add custom functions below */
// Add custom class to home page
function my_class_names($classes) {
	if ( is_page(404)() ) {
		$classes[] = 'custom navy-seaport-e';
	}
	return $classes;
}
add_filter('body_class','my_class_names');

This is the code form the child theme that I tried to add a body_class to a specific page that I want to change the content width of.

I guess you saved functions.php and when you try to save, you get this error.

The thing is, file is saved and next time, it won’t be saved.

You have to log in via FTP.

The problem is in line 8 here. You have:

if ( is_page(404)() ) {

You have extra parantheses here. You need change this to:

if ( is_page(404) ) {

That should fix this. But you need to edit via FTP or cPanel.

Let me know if that helps. ??

Thank you. This seemed to help. using the FTP. I decided against editing the function.php, but it’s easier to make changes via FTP. Thanks