Title: Theme Installation/Activation Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme Installation/Activation Problem

 *  [adgraham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adgraham/)
 * (@adgraham)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-installationactivation-problem/)
 * I have installed more than a few WordPress sites and themes. I set up a site 
   in the newer 3.04 version and it went fine. I have a couple of themes I downloaded
   and when I try to activate them I get this message:
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION
   or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /usr/local/www/vhosts/(mywebsite address)/httpdocs/wordpress/
   wp-content/themes/my-base/resources/lib/options.php on line 4
 * I don’t know what the heck this is. Can someone help me figure out what went 
   wrong and how I can fix this?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-installationactivation-problem/#post-1875968)
 * Looks like you have a parse error in this file
    my-base/resources/lib/options.
   php
 *  Thread Starter [adgraham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adgraham/)
 * (@adgraham)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-installationactivation-problem/#post-1875972)
 * I have no idea what that means. How do I fix it? Is there something I need to
   add or delete?
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-installationactivation-problem/#post-1875986)
 * Using Ftp you will need to rename my-base theme to say mybase-hold and then try
   log in this will open your twenty ten theme.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-installationactivation-problem/#post-1875986)
 * Status: not resolved

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