Title: Unexpect Parse Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Unexpect Parse Error

 *  [fuschia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fuschia/)
 * (@fuschia)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-parse-error/)
 * I’ve searched and found nothing so here goes.
 * I’m customizing the template and have run into a snag. I keep getting an error
   message that says:
 * Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘>’
 * (view whole message at [http://www.valcha.net/becky](http://www.valcha.net/becky))
 * Line 8
    <?php the_date(‘’,'<h2>’,'</h2>’);?>

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 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-parse-error/#post-165252)
 * Make sure all your single quotes are really single quotes (straight ones), not
   curly ones. Go through that line, delete all the quote marks and replace them
   with new single quotes.
 * Also, make sure you’re using a good editor for things like this:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_files](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_files)
 * EDIT: By the way, I don’t actually see that error on your site, but it looks 
   like you’re tinkering at the moment.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-parse-error/#post-165252)
 * Status: not resolved

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