{"id":18997524,"date":"2026-08-19T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/snippet-doesnt-accept-multi-line-comment-like\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:32:53","slug":"snippet-doesnt-accept-multi-line-comment-like","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/snippet-doesnt-accept-multi-line-comment-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Snippet doesn&#8217;t accept multi-line comment like \/* &#8230; *\/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was testing and debugging a snippet for generateblocks query loop. And when I put one part of the code in comment like below, site crashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>    \/* comment<br \/>    comment<br \/>    comment<br \/>    comment *\/<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Error log<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>PHP Parse error:  Unmatched '}' in \/...\/wp-content\/wpmastertoolkit\/code-snippets\/include-1755.php on line 5<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tested snippet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>add_filter( 'generateblocks_query_loop_args', 'snip3w_gb_query_orderby_members', 10, 2 );<br \/><br \/>function snip3w_gb_query_orderby_members( $query_args, $attributes ) { <br \/>    if ( ! is_admin() &amp;&amp; <br \/>        ! empty( $attributes&#091;'className'] ) <br \/>        &amp;&amp; strpos( $attributes&#091;'className'], 'query-orderby-members' ) !== false <br \/>    ) { <br \/>        $query_args&#091;'orderby'] = 'title'; <br \/>        $query_args&#091;'order'] = 'DESC'; <br \/><br \/>        \/*$query_args = array_merge( <br \/>            $query_args, array( <br \/>                'orderby' =&gt; array( <br \/>                    'menu_order' =&gt; 'ASC', <br \/>                    'title' =&gt; 'ASC', <br \/>                 ) <br \/>             )<br \/>        );*\/ <br \/>    } <br \/><br \/>    return $query_args; <br \/>}<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18997524","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18997524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18997524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18997524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}