Okay, my site now validates. Most of the validation problem was from an error in the PHP script that generates those long referral lists in the sidebar. Unfortunately, the searchbar still does not work. I’ve stripped down my .htaccess file to the following:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .css [NC]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Unfortunately, the AddType statement at the top cannot be removed because it enables PHP to be run in my stylesheet. Without it the entire color schema falls apart.
It should be noted that the .htaccess file at in the WordPress installation directory differs slightly. WordPress changed the file, after I copied it to my root directory:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wp/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wp/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Also, when I was customizing the template I stripped out a lot of the header. Here’s what left:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<?php /* printing meta keywords */
include ("__db_open.php");
print ("<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"");
$query = "SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories ORDER BY cat_name ASC";
$result = mysql_query($query,$link);
while($record = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
print ($record[0].", ");
}
print("\" />");
?>
<meta name="description" content="Correctness Commentary: Dedicated to shining the light of the gospel on the moral decay of this world." />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<div class="headerbanner"><?php include("__short_banner_ad.php"); ?></div>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</div>
<div class="midsection">
Searchform.php remains as follows:
<div class="search">
<form method="get" id="search" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/">
<input class="search" type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="search"/>
</form>
</div>
Any thoughts/suggestions are much appreciated. ??
