Title: Parse errors
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Parse errors

 *  [Tim M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timbo9799/)
 * (@timbo9799)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-1/)
 * Please forgive me. New to WP. I get parse errors on the host side ANY time I 
   modifiy a PHP template. It doesn’t matter what I change! For example, I changed
   a simple size parameter (SIZE=22) in comments.php to (SIZE=20). Didn’t touch 
   another piece of code. Saved the changes and I keep getting “Parse error: parse
   error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home/alizardt/public_html/WordPress/wp-content/themes/
   default/comments.php on line 6”. It’s always the same error on either line 5 
   or line 6! Doesn’t matter what code I attempt to modify, or how simple the change
   is. Could this be a permissions issue? I’m at a loss!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-errors-1/#post-319947)
 * Consider pasting your code at [http://pastebin.com/](http://pastebin.com/) and
   report the URL for that paste back here and hope fully someone can spot the problem.

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