Strange Post/Page Title issue after customization

Hi,

i’m trying to customize how posts are displayed on homepage, in the process i have updated the functions file and its working fine,

target – i want to show post featured image before the post title, and i did that by adding the code in functions.php. but i have to remove the featured image which is part of the original code which exist in “bfa_post_bodycopy” function in bfa_post_parts.php. i just removed the 1 line from the function (line 150)
[PHP]“> <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>[/PHP]

so i did that and it worked.

Problem – but after that i’m facing the a strange issue, now all my post titles are added a “2>” in the end, its also appearing on single post page. i thought i have made some changes in other code so i replaced the code from theme files, but the issue is not resolved.

so i deleted the theme from wordpress and reinstalled it end just downloaded the bfa_post_parts.php and added a new blank line in function and uploaded it again and their you go the “2>” appears on all post/page titles.

check the image attached to see the issue.

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