WordPress website suddenly stopped working with "Syntax Error" message

  • Azam Marketing

    (@azaminfo)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    I haven’t touched my WordPress blog in months.

    All of a sudden it has stopped working. I am presented with only the following error message on whichever URL of the domain name I enter (I can’t login to WordPress admin because I also get the same error message on the login page):

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home2/name/public_html/mydomainnamehere.com/wp-content/plugins/grand-media/inc/core.php on line 2001

    Everything was working perfectly before, with the identical plugins.

    Can anyone kindly advise me on what I should do please?

    Many thanks.

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  • David_G

    (@questas_admin)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Looks like you have an issue with the plugin “grand-media”. FTP to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder and rename that plugin temporarily to “grand-media.hold” which will deactivate the plugin, then you should be able to get back in. From there you can probably get help for the plugin in their forum.

    Thread Starter Azam Marketing

    (@azaminfo)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Just wanted to say a huge thank you questas_admin. I have disabled the Grand-Media plugin as per your advice and my website works now.

    I’ll have to suss out why the plugin suddenly stopped my website from working and try to find a replacement for it. It’s a real pity that a WordPress blog can’t just continue to run on autopilot without issues from time to time with plugins etc.

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