Title: Minor Theme Coding issues
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Minor Theme Coding issues

 *  [Another Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/another-guy/)
 * (@another-guy)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-theme-coding-issues/)
 * I have run into a couple of problems with the sport theme, overall it does what
   it is suppose to do, but breaks a few rules that makes it not very good for search
   engine results.
 * Specifically, the over use of the H1 tag. H1 should be used once on a page, not
   for every item title. Right now each post title is an H1, it more likely should
   be an H2. Similarly, the headers for the sidebar items are also H1. They should
   likely be an H3 instead. Having too many H1 tags on the page leads to confusion,
   and Google may even consider the site an attempt to spam and thus discount it
   or even block it entirely.
 * The benefit of course here is that the font / color / size of each of these tags
   could be added to the configuration, making the theme more flexible.
 * Also, the post headers include the date published, along with the tag “pubdate”.
   That tag doesn’t pass Wc3 validation, and doesn’t actually appear to accomplish
   anything. It might be better just to remove it entirely.
 * Finally, my personal request is to have a way to redefine the width of the sidebar
   versus the body content. Fixed widths make the theme a little harder to deal 
   with overall.
 * thanks

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## Tags

 * [H1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/h1/)
 * [h2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/h2/)
 * [h3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/h3/)
 * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-theme-coding-issues/)
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