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1. Margie11
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Hello,
   can you please help me with that
   (not sure if I'm in the right place here):

   I cannot do anything on my site, I get the following error message:

   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')' in /home/margie10/public_html/wp-content/themes/scylla-lite/functions.php on line 19

   Everything worked fine till I uploaded some plugins. Now I cannot access my site at all, "?a80c1110" shows up and I get a 404 error message...
   Too much for a newbie like me.

   Thank you so much.
   Margareta

2. peredur
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Can you post that line of code so we can see if it's something easy? If it isn't we can help you get back to a default theme so that you can remove the plugins and start again.

   Actually, can you get to the Dashboard by typing:

   your.site.url/wp-admin

   If you can, you can start removing plugins immediately. Remove them one-by-one until you get your site back.

   Cheers

   PAE

3. Margie11
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Hi Peredur,
   thanks for your reply. I just tried to log in and put http://mastermind-coaching-and-consulting.com/wp-admin/ in the browser, and, immediately the same error message showed up:
   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')' in /home/margie10/public_html/wp-content/themes/scylla-lite/functions.php on line 19

   Cannot find the line code for ?a80c1110 anymore... I tried so many things, was on Google and there the same code appears but no way to find out what it is about.

   Thx.

4. peredur
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   So what does line 19 of functions.php say?

   To get back to a default theme you could try this, but back up your database first and bear in mind that I have no idea if it works or if it has any other repercussions.

   Cheers

   PAE

5. Margie11
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   No idea what line 19 says because I don't have any access to the site anymore. That's the real problem. Otherwise I would have replaced the ',' with ')' and did not run into that trouble - I don't know if it worked or not but that was my first idea. I made a backup before I uploaded the plugins but without accessing the site I cannot upload the backup file...
   However, now I'll try what you suggested.
   Thx.

6. Margie11
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Still having the problem Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting ')' in /home/margie10/public_html/wp-content/themes/scylla-lite/functions.php on line 19- tried everything I was told to but it did not work. Cannot access my site, whatever I click on I get the a.m. error message. Meanwhile From the dump I learned that it might be a corrupted file in the footer.php that broke my site... but not sure about that either.

   I have a full backup and think I should restore the db and the content with it but no clue how to do it, how to and where to upload the backup data and how to "upgrade" thereafter. Could somebody please give me a hint?
   Thank you very much.

7. peredur
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Well, you haven't tried quite everything.

   On the face of it, there's a problem with the functions.php file. That being the case, until someone gets access to it, looks for and corrects the error, it looks as though there's no solution (or at least not one that anybody whose read the issue so far can offer).

   BTW, the correction may not be as simple as you think. Error messages report where the error was discovered and not where they originated. So I'd be a bit careful about just changing a comma to a closing bracket unless you can spot the syntax error.

   Sorry I can't be more positive.

   Cheers

   PAE

8. peredur
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Oops! Sorry. Jumped the gun a bit.

   Restoring your backup would be a solution as long as the backup pre-dates the problem and includes both the database and the WordPress installation (the files on the Web server). Simply restoring the database alone will almost certainly not help since the problem is in a file and not in the database.

   Given that you can't access the functions.php file, I take it that you can't restore the site either.

   Cheers

   PAE

9. misamay
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I had something like this wrong...I changed something in my functions.php file via the editor on the wordpress dashboard and it shut down my whole wp-admin section plus my website. What i did was download the scylla-lite theme to my folder via this website (i originally downloaded it from my wordpress dashboard) and then since I have godaddy.com, I logged in there and got to my file manager (you can also do it via ftp client) and I deleted the function.php that I messed up, then uploaded the original. It took like 2 minutes to fix.

   Now, I am not an expert....but could you just go into your file manager/ftp client and delete the files for the plugin(s) manually? If you edited your functions.php file, then just do what I did...but you are saying that you are sure it happened after you installed a plugin. I believe that just deleting the plugin files would work in deactivating it and restoring your site. I had a a plugin once that I didn't like and I was going to deactivate it and uninstall it but I was being EXTRA lazy and didn't want to open a new tap to navigate to my WP dashboard (lol), but I was already on my ftp client looking at my files. So i just found the plugin files and deleted them and the next time I went back on my WP dashboard...it just showed it as gone. It didn't mess up anything at all.

10. Margie11
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Hey guys,

    thank you so much for taking your time and helping me. I used ftp to upload my backup file and - I couldn't believe my eyes! - it worked. I have my site restored and everything is in place again.

    Like so many things in life, this is a "simple" learning process we all have to go through (lol)...

    re. "Irene": Hope you're all good and safe!

11. misamay
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Glad you got things to work! A lot of people forget that the WordPress Dashboard is just a bunch of files, just webpages and script...not your whole site structure/being. Always keep a back-up of your theme files on your computer so If there's a mistake and you get an error, you can always just re-upload it via ftp or your hosting file manager

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