Erro de sintaxe de erro de análise do PHP, final inesperado do arquivo

Continuo recebendo este erro quando estava em uma configuração LEMP nginx 1.10/PHP 7 e pensei que era por causa do PHP 7 e agora configurei um novo servidor com nginx 1.4.6/PHP 5.5.9

2016/06/19 15:45:18 [error] 4094#0: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected end of file in /var/www/www.example.com/public/wp-content/themes/techs/functions.php on line 141" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.0.0.11, server: www.example.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "example.com"

Agora, o arquivo que está causando esse erro está aqui e notei que a linha é a última linha vazia e tentei removê-la, mas não foi removida. Alguém pode me indicar o que está causando esse erro?

nano /var/www/www.example.com/public/wp-content/themes/techs/functions.php

a linha 141 é a linha vazia após/sob a tag de fechamento; todas as tentativas de excluir essa linha falharam

<?php

if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { // Added in 2.9
        add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );
        set_post_thumbnail_size( 75, 56, true ); // Normal post thumbnails
        add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 273, 273 ); // Permalink thumbnail size
}


/*register_sidebar(array(
        'name'=>'sidebar',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</li>',
    'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
));
*/

# Displays a list of popular posts
function gtt_popular_posts($num, $pre='<li>', $suf='</li>', $excerpt=true) {
        global $wpdb;
        $querystr = "SELECT $wpdb->posts.post_title,$wpdb->posts.post_date_gmt, $wpdb->posts.ID, $wpdb->posts.post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish' AND $wpdb->posts.post_type = 'post' ORDER BY $wpdb->posts.comment_count DESC LIMIT $num";
        $myposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);
        foreach($myposts as $post) {
                echo $pre;
                ?><div class="fpimg">

          <img src="<?php get_post_thumbnail($post->ID); ?>" />
        </div>
                <div class="fpost">
        <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>"><?php echo $post->post_title ?></a><br />
                <?php if (function_exists('time_since')) {echo time_since(abs(strtotime($post->post_date_gmt . " GMT")), time()) . " ago";} else {the_time('F jS, Y');} ?>
                </div>
                <?php echo $suf;
        }
}


function get_recent_posts($num) {
      $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts($num);
      foreach($recent_posts as $post){
          ?>
          <li><div class="fpimg"> <?php echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($post["ID"]) . '" title="Look '.$post["post_title"].'" >'; ?>
          <img src="<?php get_post_thumbnail($post["ID"]); ?>" />
          </div>
          <div class="fpost">
        <?php echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($post["ID"]) . '" title="Look '.$post["post_title"].'" >' .   $post["post_title"].'</a>  ';?>
                <br />
                <?php if (function_exists('time_since')) {echo time_since(abs(strtotime($post["post_date_gmt"] . " GMT")), time()) . " ago";} else {the_time('F jS, Y');} ?>
                </div>
                </li>
    <? }


         }
function time_since($older_date, $newer_date = false)
        {
        // array of time period chunks
        $chunks = array(
        array(60 * 60 * 24 * 365 , 'year'),
        array(60 * 60 * 24 * 30 , 'month'),
        array(60 * 60 * 24 * 7, 'week'),
        array(60 * 60 * 24 , 'day'),
        array(60 * 60 , 'hour'),
        array(60 , 'minute'),
        );

        // $newer_date will equal false if we want to know the time elapsed between a date and the current time
        // $newer_date will have a value if we want to work out time elapsed between two known dates
        $newer_date = ($newer_date == false) ? (time()+(60*60*get_settings("gmt_offset"))) : $newer_date;

        // difference in seconds
        $since = $newer_date - $older_date;

        // we only want to output two chunks of time here, eg:
        // x years, xx months
        // x days, xx hours
        // so there's only two bits of calculation below:

        // step one: the first chunk
        for ($i = 0, $j = count($chunks); $i < $j; $i++)
                {
                $seconds = $chunks[$i][0];
                $name = $chunks[$i][1];

                // finding the biggest chunk (if the chunk fits, break)
                if (($count = floor($since / $seconds)) != 0)
                        {
                        break;
                        }
                }

        // set output var
        $output = ($count == 1) ? '1 '.$name : "$count {$name}s";

        // step two: the second chunk
        if ($i + 1 < $j)
                {
                $seconds2 = $chunks[$i + 1][0];
                $name2 = $chunks[$i + 1][1];

                if (($count2 = floor(($since - ($seconds * $count)) / $seconds2)) != 0)
                        {
                        // add to output var
                        $output .= ($count2 == 1) ? ', 1 '.$name2 : ", $count2 {$name2}s";
                        }
                }

        return $output;
        }
function get_post_thumbnail($pid) {
$files = get_children('post_parent='.$pid.'&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image');
if($files) :
$keys = array_reverse(array_keys($files));
$j=0;
$num = $keys[$j];
$image=wp_get_attachment_image($num, 'large', false);
$imagepieces = explode('"', $image);
$imagepath = $imagepieces[1];
$thumb=wp_get_attachment_thumb_url($num);
print $thumb;
else:
echo  bloginfo('template_directory')."/images/smallimg.jpg";
endif;
}
function get_post_thumbnails() {
$files = get_children('post_parent='.get_the_ID().'&post_type=attachment&post_mime_type=image');
if($files) :
$keys = array_reverse(array_keys($files));
$j=0;
$num = $keys[$j];
$image=wp_get_attachment_image($num, 'large', false);
$imagepieces = explode('"', $image);
$imagepath = $imagepieces[1];
$thumb=wp_get_attachment_thumb_url($num);
print $thumb;
else:
echo  bloginfo('template_directory')."/images/smallimg.jpg";
endif;
}
?>