.php error has blocked access to wordpress

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  sudogenoner · Member · Feb 28, 2016 at 11:21 am

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  Hi, I was recently attempting to add some code so that my pages would hold comments, which I added to the functions.php section of my child theme, after the code that was already present.
  The code was as follows:
  <div id=’comments’>
  <?php comments_template(); ?>
  </div>
  This didn’t seem to work, so I removed the top and bottom lines (leaving only <?php comments_template(); ?>) which then produced the following error when I applied it:

  Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home4/sudogenoner/public_html/wp-content/themes/media/functions.php on line 18

  Even after deleting all the new code, the message kept appearing, so I just left the site thinking it would reset. Now all I get is a blank page when I attempt to access the site, with the same error message. HELP!

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  geoffreyshilling · Member · Feb 28, 2016 at 12:21 pm

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  It looks like you are using the self-hosted (WordPress.ORG) version of WordPress instead of the WordPress.COM hosted version that is supported here. I recommend asking on the WordPress.org Support Forums for help removing this text:
  http://wordpress.org/support/

  Read more about the differences between WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  sudogenoner · Member · Feb 28, 2016 at 12:54 pm

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  Ok, will do thanks