Will Taft
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What is the location of these last errors?Yes, there it is. But no search I do of the Codex turns it up. In addition to the previous searches I did, even the following don’t turn up that page or the page linked from there that actually provides the answer.
“wp_register displays the link in list format”
wp_register
“displays the link in list format”
Is searching the Codex only searching topics or titles or is it full text searching?
I do now see a link at the bottom of one of the search results that says “Go To Template Tags Index”, but it was not obvious to me that is what I needed. I am not sure I would have even thought that was where I would find a link to the answer.
Anyway, thanks again.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What is the location of these last errors?I find answers to most of my questions in the Codex. I think it is very well done and helpful. Sometimes, though, I can’t formulate search terms that turn up the Codex help I am looking for. Probably just my problem, though.
For example, even after reading your last reply that what I was trying to figure out was in the Codex, I still could not find it. Oh well, once again, thanks to this forum, I understand a little bit more!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What is the location of these last errors?Thank you! I had tried that but it then told me I was missing the li tags it had complained about earlier. Wacky, where did they go if I did not take them out, only added the ul tags?
Anyway, I did it again and the validator showed that the “li’s” were indeed gone again. So this time I took it’s word for it and added the li tags back in, leaving the ul tags I just inserted and the page validates.
This stuff can really confound someone just learning.
Thanks for your help!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What is the location of these last errors?Hi, and thanks for the explanation. I may have to leave these two errors if I just can’t get it yet.
Because the theme’s author had lots of this kind of error and I fixed the rest of them, I know the problem and how to fix it except…. In these last two errors, I just can not find the actual location of the code.
For example, I figured out the code in my post above is not in any of the theme’s php files. I then saw that it may indicate that the code would be in the wp-login.php file, and I can find it there, but without the offending li tags the page source shows it wrapped with. Where do the li tags get inserted from in the page source if they are no in the wp-login file?
I have the same issue, (finding the “li” to fix), with the other error.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationUnfortunately, it only seemed to work for a while??? Now when I view this page linked above, that page is too dark to read. Just like what happened when I put it at the end of the header page. It worked fine the first few times I visited it after putting in the </div> on the footer page, now it’s bad again. What the……? So I took the </div> out. It does not seem to relate to my real problem which I need to fix which is getting the sidebar in the correct location on that one page when viewed in IE.
This was a free theme and is the 25th most downloaded WP theme. The theme’s author is busy with other things now, so no support.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationazaozz – You got it perfectly! That is seems to be exactly where the missing </div> needed to go. I will examine the source on that page closely tomorrow to see if I can figure out what you saw to know that. Thank you VERY much.
This all started because my sidebar drops to the bottom on that page in IE. (Fine in Firefox). I was trying to fix that and was told that I should get all validation errors fixed first to see if that fixed the sidebar issue. It did not as you can see if you visit this link in IE.
Do you have any idea why the sidebar might be dropped down when viewing that page in IE?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationEvery page on my WP site now validates except for the single post page. http://xrl.us/vkjd To make validation perfect, I can fix the missing </div>, but no matter where I insert it, the entire site then goes dark and unreadable.
I can leave the </div> missing and the site is fine. But as I am ultimately trying to fix the fact that, in IE, my sidebar drops down on this page, I’d like it to validate and work before attacking the sidebar issue further.
I am thinking that it might have to do with the code:
<div class=”cnt”>
The single post page is the only one that calls from the header file to the .cnt part of the css file. I put the css file in the paste bin:
http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/421669
Can anyone help with this last issue?
Thanks.
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In reply to: Need direction to this code locationCan someone please look at this error and the code that is wrong? The code is in the WP Paste bin, link at end of this post. I do not understand the error or how to fix it. Thanks!
Error Line 149, column 25: required attribute “action” not specified .
<form name=”subsform”>
The attribute given above is required for an element that you’ve used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the “type” attribute is required on the “script” element and the “alt” attribute is required for the “img” element.
Typical values for type are type=”text/css” for <style> and type=”text/javascript” for <script>.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationAnd now I find that one of the errors I thought I fixed, does not work. The error listed for line 199, is a missing </div>. If I add the missing tag, the validator says it is fixed. But when I view the page, it is completely dark. If I remove the fix, the page is viewable again! I wonder what’s up with that?
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In reply to: Need direction to this code locationWell, I am down to three errors, but my sidebar is still on the bottom. Hopefully azaozz will be back to answer my question in my last post, because that is my big problem.
I did just find, and hopefully fix, the error listed for line 199, a missing </div>. I found it though, by doing a full text search of all my php files one by one until I found the referenced text. Not the best way to find errors, I am sure!
I am now down to two errors. I found one of the two, the one on line 167 in my sidebar file within the code Google supplied for my Google Reader button. I can not seem to fix it, no matter what I try. I don’t completely understand the error description.
And my last error on line 149, I have not a clue what to do with that! Can you translate it for me?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationThank you, that was easily fixed. But what I need to be able to do is what you did. How did you know from looking at the validation report that the missing tag was in the sidebar file? For some reason, I was unable to see that?
As a side note, fixing this error did NOT fix the sidebar dropping to the bottom in IE.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationYes, I thought the errors were in places that I did not mess with. Two of them are actually in the code that Google generates for you to insert a Google Reader feed button on your site.
All I am trying to do is figure out why this page:
http://willtaft.com/wordpress/education/homeschool/homeschooling-and-socialization/
won’t load the sidebar correctly in IE. I figured if I started by fixing any validation errors, that would be best.
As you say to do, the php files were the first place I looked to fix the errors. However, for the first error, I can not find, even with full text searching, any of the code referred to around lines 125 and 130. Am I approaching this incorrectly?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need direction to this code locationMaybe my original question is so dense, it’s comic…. But, where do I find the code to fix after running a url for a WP page through a validator? I can’t find the specific errors anywhere in the php files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Edit post problem in Firefox – IE worksToo bad about the validating of php code snippets. Something that did that would sure help us beginners find and correct our mistakes.
Thanks again for your patience and help!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Edit post problem in Firefox – IE worksWell Rudolph, this is sort of crazy, and maybe I should be careful to not jinx things, but either I did understand your explanation more than I thought or I just got lucky. What I did was go back to the single.php file where I had added: <div class=”singlecontent”> and closely examined it. It did seem like I may have had an extra div starting tag or was missing an ending one. I tried taking out one <div class=”…”> that looked like it was no longer needed and now all is fine! This stuff can drive you to the bottle!
I would still appreciate your take on why this would cause a problem for Firefox and not IE?
Also, is there a web site, (could not find one), where I can validate the contents of a php file in the same way that you can do a web page?