Title: HELP! Child theme code crashed site
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# HELP! Child theme code crashed site

 *  Resolved [The Virtual Visionary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-virtual-visionary/)
 * (@the-virtual-visionary)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-child-theme-code-crashed-site/)
 * PLEASE HELP!!! I need easy to understand and follow directions. See problem below.
 * My website is [http://thevirtualvisionary.com](http://thevirtualvisionary.com)
 * I followed directions to use Childify theme to create a child theme in order 
   to edit the functions.php file. I wanted to move home page content above the 
   featured pages. I followed directions from here: [http://presscustomizr.com/snippet/add-content-above-featured-pages/](http://presscustomizr.com/snippet/add-content-above-featured-pages/)
 * Method 2 says to insert my HTML inside “$before_fp var, in between the single
   quotes.” But I did not know what my HTML was, and thought I was supposed to use
   the longer code from method 1. So I put all the code in method 1 where it told
   me to in method 2. Then my site crashed and I got the error message and cannot
   get back into the editor to delete it.
 * Obviously I did something wrong because now when I try to access my dashboard
   or any part of my site, my screen ONLY shows this error message: Parse error:
   syntax error, unexpected ‘/’ in /home/thevir17/public_html/wp-content/themes/
   customizr-child-theme/functions.php on line 6
 * I cannot get back into ANY files to change code. I cannot access any part of 
   my site AT ALL. How do I fix this?!?!?!!
 * Please give VERY CLEAR STEP-BY-STEP directions as I am new to coding.

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 *  [rdellconsulting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdellconsulting/)
 * (@rdellconsulting)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-child-theme-code-crashed-site/#post-6710926)
 * Do you have FTP access (eg Filezilla) or cPanel access to your site?
 * If so, go to the **child theme** folder and delete functions.php.
 *  Thread Starter [The Virtual Visionary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-virtual-visionary/)
 * (@the-virtual-visionary)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-child-theme-code-crashed-site/#post-6710959)
 * Perfect. Yes, I have access to my cPanel. I logged in and deleted the functions.
   php from the child theme folder. Thank you!! Still have no idea how to do what
   I want, but I’ll wait for clearer instructions next time.
 *  Thread Starter [The Virtual Visionary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-virtual-visionary/)
 * (@the-virtual-visionary)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-child-theme-code-crashed-site/#post-6710960)
 * Issue resolved

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 * Last reply from: [The Virtual Visionary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-virtual-visionary/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-child-theme-code-crashed-site/#post-6710960)
 * Status: resolved