Title: Plugin code problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin code problem

 *  [jamaal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamaal/)
 * (@jamaal)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-code-problem/)
 * I wanted the “posted x days ago” feature on my posts. I downloaded the plugin
   from [http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/time-since/](http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/time-since/)–
   I activated the plugin, but when I place the code in my index.php file I get 
   the error:
 * **Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/jayzcog/public_html/
   wp-content/themes/chaoticsoul-10/index.php on line 32**
 * Here is my index.php code – can you please help?
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
   
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
       		<!-- First Post -->
         	<?php $top_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); ?>
   
         	<?php while($top_query->have_posts()) : $top_query->the_post(); $first_post = $post->ID; ?>
   
       			<div class="post top" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       				<h2 class="first"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       				<span class="postmetadata">&bull; <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '(', ')'); ?></span>
   
       				<div class="entry">
       <?php if (function_exists(’time_since’)) {
       echo time_since(abs(strtotime($post->post_date_gmt . ” GMT”)), time()) . ” ago”;
       } else {
       the_time(’F jS, Y’);
       } ?>
   
       					<?php the_content("<span class=\"continue\">" . __('Continue reading','') . " '" . the_title('', '', false) . "'</span>"); ?>
       				</div>
       			</div>
   
       <?php endwhile; ?>
   
       		<!-- Next few posts -->
       		<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); if(!($first_post == $post->ID)) : ?>	
   
       			<div class="post lastfive" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       				<span class="postmetadata">&bull; <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '(', ')'); ?></span>
   
       				<div class="entry">
       					<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       				</div>
       			</div>
   
       		<?php endif; endwhile; ?>
   
       	<?php else : ?>
   
       		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
       		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
       		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
   
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
       	</div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [jamaal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamaal/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-code-problem/)
 * Status: not resolved

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