Title: Parse Error when using new template… Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Parse Error when using new template… * [Sumaira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumaira/) * (@sumaira) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-when-using-new-template/) * Im totally new to WP (as in….4 hours new…). Trying to implement my own template and ran across this error: Parse error: parse error in /home/pittsb50/public_html/ sumaira/index.php on line 126 Line 126 of my code is: Am I missing something here?? I wrote my own XHTML and basically copied and pasted all the content from WP’s original index.php file into my own….just as a trial run so I can do some more css formating….and thats when i ran into this parse error. ` <?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?> * *
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Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-when-using-new-template/#post-62128) * Run your site through the validator: [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/) A link to your site would help too if the validator doesn’t. * Anonymous * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-when-using-new-template/#post-62133) * Parse errors are a PHP issue and won’t be picked up by the validator, which checks only HTML. I suggest you copy and paste the PHP code over again; closing tags and semicolons can easily get missed out when selecting code, and then throw up parse errors. * Thread Starter [Sumaira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumaira/) * (@sumaira) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-when-using-new-template/#post-62140) * Actually, I worked backwards, pasting my css around the WP Template and it worked…. not sure how but its working! Thanks! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Parse Error when using new template…’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Sumaira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumaira/) * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-when-using-new-template/#post-62140) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics