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WordPress From Bootstrap to WordPress Setup a Bootstrap Theme Add Bootstrap CSS via the functions.php File

Kate McHugh
Kate McHugh
4,241 Points
Posted by Kate McHugh
Kate McHugh
4,241 Points

functions.php breaks wordpress

When there is code in the functions.php file, wordpress won't work / load. If I remove the code, it works again. Why would this be?

3 Answers

Ben Falk
Ben Falk
3,167 Points
Ben Falk
Ben Falk
3,167 Points

If you add code to your functions.php file and it breaks Wordpress, that likely means you have an PHP error in your code. Can you post the code you are working with?

Andi Wilkinson
Andi Wilkinson
26,822 Points
Andi Wilkinson
Andi Wilkinson
26,822 Points

check there are no spaces at the end of it!

patrick kellogg
patrick kellogg
7,579 Points
patrick kellogg
patrick kellogg
7,579 Points

an empty functions.php file with just this in it (i.e opening php tag with no closing php tag: ?> will also break it: this happened to me in the last lesson - it is always best practice not to use a closing php tag in a php file unless needed (see functions.php file in twentyfifteen theme to verify or google on it) but this appears to be a wordpress bug that only surfaces in a minimalistic barebones example such as this or midway through the last lesson.

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