WordPress website suddenly stopped working with "Syntax Error" message

  • I haven’t touched my WordPress blog in months.

    All of a sudden it has stopped working. I am presented with only the following error message on whichever URL of the domain name I enter (I can’t login to WordPress admin because I also get the same error message on the login page):

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home2/name/public_html/mydomainnamehere.com/wp-content/plugins/grand-media/inc/core.php on line 2001

    Everything was working perfectly before, with the identical plugins.

    Can anyone kindly advise me on what I should do please?

    Many thanks.

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  • David_G

    (@questas_admin)

    Looks like you have an issue with the plugin “grand-media”. FTP to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder and rename that plugin temporarily to “grand-media.hold” which will deactivate the plugin, then you should be able to get back in. From there you can probably get help for the plugin in their forum.

    Thread Starter Azam

    (@azaminfo)

    Just wanted to say a huge thank you questas_admin. I have disabled the Grand-Media plugin as per your advice and my website works now.

    I’ll have to suss out why the plugin suddenly stopped my website from working and try to find a replacement for it. It’s a real pity that a WordPress blog can’t just continue to run on autopilot without issues from time to time with plugins etc.

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