Title: unknown code – help?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# unknown code – help?

 *  [sarafletcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarafletcher/)
 * (@sarafletcher)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-code-help/)
 * I am a relative new comer to wordpress.org and I coul ddo with some advice…
 * When I open the dashboard, at the top of the screen there is a series of codes
   that I don’t recognise. Can anyone tell me what they mean and how i get rid of
   them?
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
 * Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat
   at offset 1 in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202
 * thank you!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-code-help/#post-2554773)
 * Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder – from
   a **fresh** download of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [sarafletcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarafletcher/)
 * (@sarafletcher)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-code-help/#post-2554787)
 * Thanks esmi,
 * I’ll give it a go…

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-code-help/#post-2554787)
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