Title: Parse error: syntax
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Parse error: syntax

 *  [LadyStokesy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladystokesy/)
 * (@ladystokesy)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax/)
 * Hi guys – I pasted something into function.php in order to set up a child theme
   to my twenty ten theme but as I updated I got this message
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/sspremat/public_html/
   wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php on line 100
 * I can’t now get into WP-admin, my homepage shows but everything else is blank.
   Can anyone tell me what this means and help me get out of it please? or is my
   site wrecked?
    Thanks

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax/#post-2136634)
 * > I pasted something into function.php
 * Use ftp and replace function.php with a copy of the original.
 *  Thread Starter [LadyStokesy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladystokesy/)
 * (@ladystokesy)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax/#post-2136637)
 * Can you explain what ftp is please and how I can replace function.php when I 
   can’t get onto my admin to change anything. Sorry but I’m learning as I go along!
   
   Thanks
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax/#post-2136642)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)
 * FTP will connect your computer to the server where you account and all your files
   are hosted (where your database is). Once connected you have control over the
   files.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax/#post-2136642)
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