Title: SyntaxError: missing ; before statement jquery.js:1 &#8211; Update 1.6
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# SyntaxError: missing ; before statement jquery.js:1 – Update 1.6

 *  [ninjadan9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjadan9/)
 * (@ninjadan9)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-missing-before-statement-jqueryjs1-update-16/)
 * I get this error when I click on a link to the homepage.
 * > SyntaxError: missing ; before statement jquery.js:1
 * The homepage doesn’t load all the way because of this error. This only happens
   in the 1.6 version.
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 *  [linkromain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkromain/)
 * (@linkromain)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-missing-before-statement-jqueryjs1-update-16/#post-5275999)
 * Hi,
    I get this error also. How to fix this ?

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 * Last reply from: [linkromain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkromain/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntaxerror-missing-before-statement-jqueryjs1-update-16/#post-5275999)
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