Title: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}'
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}'

 *  [dpdoug](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpdoug/)
 * (@dpdoug)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-46/)
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/david/public_html/mywebsite.
   com/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/header.php on line 1
 * I opened up the header file to put a custom menu, but made a backup of the original
   first.
 * I FTP’ed the file back up and got this error. So I renamed the original back 
   to header.php (with no changes in it) and FTP’ed it back up and tried it again.
   I still get the same error. What’s strange is that there is no ‘}’ character 
   on line 1 of the file.
 * How do I fix this?

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-46/#post-2727172)
 * If you have a back up of the `themes/atahualpa` directory, try deleting the one
   on your server and re-uploading a fresh copy of that theme.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/atahualpa](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/atahualpa)

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