Title: What's wrong with my HTML coding? Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # What's wrong with my HTML coding? * Resolved [RavenJene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenjene/) * (@ravenjene) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/) * I really have no idea what went wrong. I am following [this](http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/03/05/wp-theme-lesson-6d-search-form-and-calendar/) tutorial and I am sure I’ve done everything correctly that was instructed to do up until that point. If needed you can scroll to the bottom for the links that lead to the other parts of the tutorial. I’ve been fiddling with this since yesterday afternoon. I have NO idea what went wrong. I assumed I didn’t close a couple of tags or something and I’ve even checked W3Schools for validation and I think most of it conflicted with the PHP Scripting. Please help. Much is appreciated. Thanks. * [My website](http://www.sofearless.com/) for previewing. My search form or my calender will not show up. Also, the “searchform.txt” document is in the tutorial. * ``` <?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?>


``` * As you can see, I’ve typed some random text in order to get things to show up which is still not working. * Heeeeeelp. Much appreciated. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279745) * Run your HTML (not the PHP you posted) through [W3C’s validator](http://validator.w3.org) and anything wrong will be exposed as _error_s. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279750) * what template (where you posted the code) is that? * it seems that this template is not used for your linked site. * what do you get when you goto _**dashboard – appearance – editor**_; select your theme; select index.php ? * also, the style.css has no styles (yet). * possibly review: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development) * Thread Starter [RavenJene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenjene/) * (@ravenjene) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279751) * It’s the tutorial template offered by: [WP-Designer](http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/)& it is the theme. & I know it doesn’t have as style.css yet but the search bar and calender should still be able to show at least. Im so confused. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279753) * you are possibly (un)happily editing the wrong file. * what method are you using for editing? * Thread Starter [RavenJene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenjene/) * (@ravenjene) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279754) * I am editing the index.php; I do it through Dreamweaver. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279765) * > I am editing the index.php; I do it through Dreamweaver. * are you using [ftp ](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)to move the edited index.php file to the server? * Thread Starter [RavenJene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenjene/) * (@ravenjene) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279770) * > are you using ftp to move the edited index.php file to the server? * I can upload to my site through Dreamweaver. * Thread Starter [RavenJene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenjene/) * (@ravenjene) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279771) * I fixed it ! 😀 I actually still have no clue what went wrong, but it miraculously started working and my search bar & calender are now appearing. You can see that [here](http://sofearless.com/). *shrug* Lol Thanks for helping though to all who contributed. But I just hope I don’t run into anything else like this considering I literally have **NO** idea what the problem was…after opening & closing tags& even going out of my way to close tags that didn’t even exist. [*Oh HTML, how you run my life.] Lol. But thanks again ! * I’m sure it was one measly tag that I didn’t close. Who knows? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘What's wrong with my HTML coding?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Coding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/coding/) * [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/) * [html5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html5/) * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [xhtml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xhtml/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [RavenJene](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenjene/) * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whats-wrong-with-my-html-coding/#post-3279771) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics