Title: Child Theme is broken
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Child Theme is broken

 *  Resolved [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-is-broken/)
 * never mind fixed it
 * Syntax error with child theme functions.php file

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-is-broken/#post-5324234)
 * Run your code through a syntax checker and it’ll tell you the problem if you 
   can’t spot it otherwise [http://www.piliapp.com/php-syntax-check/](http://www.piliapp.com/php-syntax-check/)
 * By the way you need to wrap your code in backticks not blockquotes
 *  Thread Starter [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-is-broken/#post-5324373)
 * Great link, thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-is-broken/#post-5324373)
 * Status: resolved