I cant access dashboard, webpage, or anything at all! Parse Error:

  • So I having been using the twenty fourteen theme and realized it didn’t support a transition/sliding slider. So I downloaded a basic 2014 child theme and uploaded it via the themes menu. At that point everything worked fine but I then inserted some pre-written code from a youtube video into the functions.php folder of my child theme. After I saved nothing worked, my page when down and even when I go to my godaddy account and try to access my wordpress page editor it still shows me the same error message.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/content/p3pnexwpnas04_data01/43/2434243/html/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen-child/functions.php on line 16

    I really don’t care about having the slider slide, how can i just go back to how I had it? Id like to keep the work i made on my original twenty fourteen theme but if not oh well I wasn’t exactly that far.

    Thanks!

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  • You need to access your website functions.php file using either FTP or your website hosting management file manager.
    You almost certainly have created a syntax error, you can try and fix this by using an online php syntax checker like:
    https://www.piliapp.com/php-syntax-check/

    You can also restore a pristine copy of your functions.php file. You really should have kept one you know! I guess you will next time.

    Another approach is to rename your theme directory, this will force WordPress to use the default theme.

    Thread Starter chrisjennell

    (@chrisjennell)

    Yeah the manager also goes down if you cause a syntax error. What FTP program do you recommend? I took 2 weeks of web design in High School and a bit of knowledge from myspace editing when I was young but other than that I know nothing of writing and editing code. I know that FTP is used in file sharing such as torrents, I figure for web building its the same concept but instead of transferring files you are transferring code from your drive to your website. Is this correct?

    Also I fixed this by going to my godaddy account and using their backup file of my site. I lost a bit of changes that I made but its ok.

    One more thing. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of twenty fourteen child theme? I have a line of code that I want to put in to change my slider but the child theme I downloaded isnt working correctly.

    My FTP program is Filezilla, free, widely used.

    To get your theme file, download and unzip loca;lly the wordpress file.

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