Samboll, I have to express my disappointment in your terse response. Part of the allure of wordpress is accessibility to non technical users and the quality of the wordpress community.
brit67chick came here asking a perfectly reasonable question for a non-technical user to ask: why does my theme break on my homepage?
The answer is that her particular theme is known to have had ongoing problems rendering in IE7, first. Second, sure the validation errors may be playing a role, but it’s totally unfair to link a non-technical user like her to a list of markup errors. It’s bewildering and frustrating. Perhaps you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be lost in technology?
brit67chick wants to use wordpress to write her blog, not fight with it to produce correct markup. That’s perfectly fair.
Further, I actually looked at and fixed most of the errors on her page. 5 of them are errors within the theme itself. The other errors were, as she suggested above, produced by the WYSIWYG editor that she has every reasonably expectation of working. Almost all of the errors within posts were due to the editor’s inconsistent placement of < p> tags inside lists.
How was she to know? More importantly, how in the world would you expect her to troubleshoot and fix these issues on her own with no guidance? If I hadn’t been around to help her, she may have just given up. I wonder how many nontechnical users have been put off wordpress by responses like yours?
Here’s the punchline though: I fixed all the errors I could. w3 shows 5 errors, all inside the theme itself, and the bug still appears. Maybe you’d like to provide a little more insight to brit67chick as to what might be the issue? Or direct her to someone who can?
