Syntax Error, WordPress-23-Related-Posts

I was recently making a post on my site, which I do not use frequently, and it told me I had a bunch of updates to make so I just accepted them all (whoops). Now the site will not load and I get the following error related to a plugin:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ')' in /home/content/49/7274949/html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/config.php on line 130

I thought this maybe was something that could be easily corrected by changing that line of code. My site is hosted by GoDaddy. I found the code on the File Manager and this is what line 130 reads:

$wprp_mp->create_profile([], "wprp");

Changing the ‘[‘ to an ‘)’ in that line of code does not make sense. I reached out to GoDaddy support and they suggested disabling the plugin by renaming it. When I do that, it creates additional errors. I reached out to WordPress support and they gave me the same advice, but it has not been helpful. Apparently this plugin is no longer being updated. What should I do? At this time, I cannot access my website at all due to the error.

Would it be safe to delete the plugin entirely – would that correct the problem? I think I don’t need it but I don’t want to do something that cannot be reversed if that is unlikely to correct the issue. Your help is greatly appreciated.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]