Title: HTML5 for WP Last modified: March 20, 2018 --- # HTML5 for WP * [sohopros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sohopros/) * (@sohopros) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-for-wp/) * Hi, * On our website we use old style HTML: * Error: Almost standards mode doctype. Expected . From line 1, column 1; to line 1, column 121 where this html comes from? * Could be from you theme (theme’s header.php, index.php, etc.). * > Do we need to update something? * Since you are using a custom or commercial theme – `lloydmats`: – you may have to go back to your developer team and ask them to make the necessary change(s) to the theme. – For pro or commercial product support please contact the author directly on their site. They cannot support their customers here. – As the author is aware, commercial products are [not supported in these forums](https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/forum-welcome/#do-not-post-about-commercial-products). As you are their customer I am sure they will have no problem supporting you there. Also, forum volunteers are not given access to commercial products, so they would not know why your commercial theme or plugin is not working properly. * [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * (@rossmitchell) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-for-wp/#post-10097000) * If you want to fix it yourself: – First establish a child theme, otherwise your changes will get lost in an update, details on creating a child theme here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)– The DOCTYPE element absolutely comes from the theme, most usually from a single file that is included into every page template, it is conventionally called “ header.php”, BUT these are just common conventions and could be different. * Once you are done, suggest that you verify your site for html and css compliance, it is nice to have but not mandatory. Details here: [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/) [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘HTML5 for WP’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [html5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html5/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-for-wp/#post-10097000) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics