A number of small issues

  • Resolved deepbluetrees

    (@deepbluetrees)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    Hi guys. I’ve searched etc and these are my lingering problems. Apologies if I’ve missed something that’s blatantly clear.

    – Markup validation issues with the WordPress theme. I have done a XHTML markup test on a page and determined that the theme has a few errors in it: https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdeepbluetrees.com%2Farchives%2F373&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

    What would be the next steps to fixing this?

    – Setting content to pages. I understand that Pages are not meant to be collections of posts by specific tags or categories, but I’d like a way to create some tabs that link to specific types of posts.

    – Google lists my homepage now, but instead of including the text I specified using the plugin “All in one SEO tools”, it displays the footer of the page. At one point, it displayed the text that I wanted. How can I fix this?

    Thanks

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  • 1) Revalidate with the ‘Source’ checkbox checked and you’ll get links straight to the problem. Most of them are simple. All image tags need alt elements and you need to close the tags with a slash, like so: <img alt="" src="top.png" />. ‘alt’ tags must be present but they can be empty only for images that are purely decorative and carry no information.

    2) Pages can show anything you want. Category templates might be better suited but then I don’t know exactly what you are trying to do.

    3) You can’t really make Google display anything. Google does what Google wants.

    Thread Starter deepbluetrees

    (@deepbluetrees)

    Thanks for your feedback.

    1.For making those changes to the XHTML, what file should I look to change in the theme package?

    2. I basically want three tabs (maybe more) at the top of my page, for images, music, and videos. They will link to the all the posts in the appropriate tag or category, which ever is easier to link to. I know that pages are not supposed to do this, but right now I only have the “home” page and an “about” page.

    3. Well shit. Thanks for those links.

    1.For making those changes to the XHTML, what file should I look to change in the theme package?

    You’ll have to take it case by case. Some of them might be hard-coded into the theme template files or created by a theme function, others might come from plugins. All of your theme’s files are in wp-content/themes/<your-theme-name-ish> and any number of subdirectories thereof. Start looking there. It would do you good if you had software that would search text files for you like grep does.

    Item #2 sounds to me like something for category templates. See the link I posted earlier.

    Thread Starter deepbluetrees

    (@deepbluetrees)

    Okay I believe I’ve addressed a few of them that were explained in the validator. Thanks for your help.

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