Title: Parse error in class-simplepie.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Parse error in class-simplepie.php

 *  [genkido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/genkido/)
 * (@genkido)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-class-simplepiephp/)
 * Hi! I recently moved my WordPress from a friend’s server to GoDaddy. I’ve followed
   the instructions and everything worked (except I had to change an entry in the
   wp_options tables as to the absolute path to the wp-content/upload folder). Since
   I don’t know the complete path, I replaced it with the relative path (wp-content/
   upload) and it started working.
 * However, when I access the dashboard, I get this error in several dashboard widgets:
 * `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/content/53/4882353/html/
   wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 3790`
 * I’m not sure if this was caused because I changed the upload_path string but 
   otherwise I could not access the dashboard. How do I fix this? Thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [genkido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/genkido/)
 * (@genkido)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-class-simplepiephp/#post-1197635)
 * I looked into this error and it seems it could be because of short open tags 
   disabled. However, I included “short_open_tag = on” in php.ini but the problem
   is still there.
 * The problem seems to affect the widgets that connect to wordpress to get lastest
   news and plugins. The website works fine otherwise.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-class-simplepiephp/#post-1197636)
 * reupload the file /wp-includes/class-simplepie.php, see if that helps. make sure
   youre using a real ftp client and not dreamweaver or some psuedo-do everything
   pos.
 *  Thread Starter [genkido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/genkido/)
 * (@genkido)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-class-simplepiephp/#post-1197675)
 * It worked, thanks a lot! I’m not sure what had happened, in the other blog it
   was working fine.
 * Thanks again! 😀
 *  [claude203](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claude203/)
 * (@claude203)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-class-simplepiephp/#post-1197761)
 * @ whooami
 * Thank you, that worked with me as well. Same problem in WP 2.8.5 but it went 
   away after re-uploading class-simplepie.php.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [claude203](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claude203/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-in-class-simplepiephp/#post-1197761)
 * Status: not resolved

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