Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' on Twenty Eleven

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Thank you for your reply esmi.

I do have a child theme installed from before but because the menus for it are very limited, that’s why in my deep ignorance I selected the Twenty Eleven options. My child theme is called TwentyEleven Child if that helps.

Thank you.

So I assume this is now resolved?

Unfortunately it’s not resolved at all. At this point I’m more interested in restoring the footer.php back to default rather than customising anything – well, at least for now.

Thank you again.

Re-upload a fresh copy of Twenty Eleven via FTP:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/twentyeleven

I was able to fix it by copying the footer.php from another site I have also on Twenty Eleven. Wow, that was easy after all. I’ll be very happy with the Proudly powered by WordPress footer – at least for now.

esmi,
thanks very much again

Hi Franasia
I must admit I have done the same thing, would it be possible to get the code you copied sent to me so that i too can fix my mistake.

Thanks
Monika

Monika,

Here you are. I hope it pasted correctly.

Good luck.

<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer.
*
* Contains the closing of the id=main div and all content after
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Eleven
* @since Twenty Eleven 1.0
*/
?>

</div><!– #main –>

<footer id=”colophon” role=”contentinfo”>

<?php
/* A sidebar in the footer? Yep. You can can customize
* your footer with three columns of widgets.
*/
if ( ! is_404() )
get_sidebar( ‘footer’ );
?>

<div id=”site-generator”>
<?php do_action( ‘twentyeleven_credits’ ); ?>
” title=”<?php esc_attr_e( ‘Semantic Personal Publishing Platform’, ‘twentyeleven’ ); ?>” rel=”generator”><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), ‘WordPress’ ); ?>
</div>
</footer><!– #colophon –>
</div><!– #page –>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>