Title: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING”
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING”
* Resolved [strawberrymedicalat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strawberrymedicalat/)
* (@strawberrymedicalat)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t_string-2/)
* OK, so I’m making my own theme. I’m about a quarter of the way through, and now
I’m getting this error on my webpage –
* “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/strawber/public_html/
wp-content/themes/Tutorial/index.php on line 27”
* I can’t find what it is that’s causing it :/
*
* ; charset
=” />
” />
* ” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
” /
> ” /> ” /> ” />
*
*
“>
* As far as I can see, line 27 is just “”, and there’s nothing wrong with
that, is there? I think it’s something to do with the stuff in the
tags, because I started having issues when I was writing those, particularly
the ‘description’ part.
* Any suggestions…? :/
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* [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
* (@kafkaesqui)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t_string-2/#post-642167)
* I’d suspect it’s a plugin outputting something (incorrectly) through wp_head().
* Thread Starter [strawberrymedicalat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strawberrymedicalat/)
* (@strawberrymedicalat)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t_string-2/#post-642172)
* That sounds like it’s along the right lines…but is there anything else similar
it could be (because I don’t have any plugins installed)?
* [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
* (@kafkaesqui)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-unexpected-t_string-2/#post-642208)
* Sorry, I went by your statement that `` appeared to be line 27 in your
template(s). Actually, that final `
` is, and looking closely at the line
above it shows the cause:
* ``
* Note the _curly_ quotes around `description`. Those should really be straight
quotes:
* ``
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