WordPress crash when uploading theme

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  rudyvillasenor · Member · Aug 13, 2017 at 7:32 pm

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  HELP!!! I activated a theme in WordPress and what came up is the following error. The problem is that now I can’t get back in. Help!!! ERROR: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/content/71/8527371/html/ramali/wp-content/themes/newsmag/inc/libraries/class-newsmag-lazyload.php on line 18

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  staff-eleanor · Staff · Aug 13, 2017 at 7:47 pm

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  Hi there,

  Sorry to hear you’re having issues. This is the support forum for sites hosted on WordPress.com.

  It looks like you have a self-hosted site via WordPress.org.
  You can get support for that here: http://wordpress.org/support/

  To learn about the difference between the .com and .org versions visit:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Aug 13, 2017 at 8:23 pm

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  Hi @rudyvillasenor – you might need to contact your host and ask them to update version of PHP being used on the site.

  That error is usually caused by running a very old version (<5.3).