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By: This Blog Is Not For Reading » Blog Archive » Four things to improve your search result rankings

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:53:31 +0000

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By: webdesign

webdesign — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:08:34 +0000

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By: Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:52:32 +0000

The bug is probably mostly in your theme. I run WordPress at my site, and generate fully well-formed XHTML as well as mostly-valid XHTML5 (I output some legacy meta tags that HTML5 hates, I also use the rev=”" attribute which I do not believe should have been removed, and my use of ins and del tags is often just day-level granularity on datetime=”")

Are you using the vanilla theme? I could probably help you fix it up

About the inserting tel: links : do you have the WYSIWYG editor off completely, or are you using the “code” tab on it? Turning it off is much safer.

I also use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/x-valid/ to make sure that commentors cannot insert markup that breaks my well-formedness.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:34:09 +0000

I know it. And I'm not happy about it. This is a Wordpress blog, which is oodles better than the Blogspot blog I used to use. But, as you point out it's not perfect either. I'm not sure if the invalid HTML comes as a result of the templates or themes I'm using, or if the Wordpress code itself is sloppy. Certainly the editor is terrible. I compose the posts with the non-WYSIWYG editor, but it won't let me insert certain types of markup. For example, I tried to put in a URL with the tel: URI scheme, but the editor won't accept that. has the "tel:" stripped out. Listen, Wordpress, I'm editing the code, and you should do what I tell you to. Sigh. Thanx for your sympathies. --Bob.

By: Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:54:21 +0000

Ironically, this page does not validate.