Please cancel this request for help. I just decided to take this opportunity to upgrade to version 10 and that fixed the issue.

I just tried to re-upload the other two files in the directory listed in the original error and now I receive this general error for the entire theme – “The site is experiencing technical difficulties. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”

The lack of a closing bracket } for the block of code you say is working, may be causing an issue with the block of code that follows it. Add the right bracket } at the end of line 38 and then see what is working at that point. It also looks like you may need a semicolon ; at the end of line 37.

You are missing one right-hand bracket } on line 38. For every left-hand bracket { that you open code with, you need to have a right-hand bracket } to close it. You have two open left-hand brackets (one on line 34 and one on line 35), but you only have one of the required right-hand brackets to close these two left-handed brackets.

Thanks Vlad!

I solved my issue but am sharing this in case others run into the same thing.

I host my site with Namecheap and determined the root cause is that Comodo recently updated their requirements for the ModSecurity software Namecheap is running (according to the Namecheap agent). I’ve had to chat in multiple times to NC, to have them whitelist the rules that this theme is violating. The agent said they’ve been receiving multiple complaints about this issue.

The options they gave me are to:

– Continue going through the process of whitelisting rule violations as they arise.
– Temporarily disable ModSecurity until I’m done with development.
– Disable ModSecurity permanently.

Not sure how this may affect other hosts, but if it’s a problem with Namecheap, it probably will be with others.