display on firefox
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How do I make my site display right on firefox? The first post overlaps with the top of the page.
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You have a number of errors in the front blog page, and some of those errors could cause this. First go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then click save changes.
Next, open each post that you have on the first page, make one minor change such as adding a space and then deleting it and then click “update post.” That should fix most of the errors automatically.
If that does not fix the issue, then contact staff directly on this as it should not really overlap the top navigation: http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ .
Two things I’ll note:
1. Due to abuse by tag spammers, wordpress instituted a sort of “limit” on the total number of tags and categories you can assign to the posts without risking being banned from the global tags pages and that limit is 10-12 total (example: 5 categories + 7 tags = 12 total). This was done because of abuse and there were cases were people were assigning the same 100 tags to posts whether they were appropriate or not. I’ve seen other posts where there were more tags and categories assigned than there were words in the post. Search engines also get suspicious when they see large numbers of tags and will discount your page rank.
2. As far as the wordpress.COM global tags pages and search engines are concerned, tags and categories are exactly the same, so you do not want to have duplicate tags and categories. Again, search engines are suspicious of this activity.
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Okay I wil do that and see what happens. I did not know that about tags and catagories. How do I know if I have already been banned or not?
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It doesn’t appear like you have. I checked a couple tags and your latest post shows up in them. The tags/categories limit is not a hard and fast thing and your tags a and categories appear appropriate to the subject matter.
I would suggest though not to duplicate. It can cause problems, and perhaps cut down a little on the total number of tags and categories.
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I checked the correct xhtml and I already had it checked. Would it make any difference if I uncheck and save then check and save before contacting support?
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No it would not unless you just made that change in the past day or two.
By any chance have you been using upper case when writing your HTML, like in your text widgets? The W3C validator is finding a lot of that and it sees upper case in HTML an errors.
Take a look at the validation report as you are more familiar with your code and such: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkatysexposure.wordpress.com%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 .
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You will have to take the last bit that is not included with the link also. WordPress for some reason breaks it.
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How can I tell where the line number is in my blog? It shows 31 errors. I have never used a validator.
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You’ve got too many parent pages with too long titles. The theme you’re using is designed to accomodate one line of header tabs only. You’ll need to turn most of your pages into child pages (and write links to them in the parent pages), or switch to another theme.
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Line number are kind of hard to use since you would have to paste the source code for the page into an editor made for code that would show the line numbers. There are in most cases hints you can get from the truncated line of text they show.
In the text widget with the link and image to http://www.eff.org/br/ I’m seeing the uppercase. Edit that widget and change all the uppercase HTML to lowercase, save the changes and then see what happens when you check the validation again.
Did you contact support about the posts overlapping the top navigation on the blog?
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Actually there were some other issues in that widget. Replace your code with this:
<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.eff.org/br/"> <img src="http://www.eff.org/br/br.gif" border="1" alt="Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign" width="112" height="76" /> <br /> </a> <a href="http://www.eff.org/br/">Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign! </a><br /></div> -
No I did not contact support yet. I thought you were saying those errors were what made it all messed up with firefox. Are the errors all in that widget? And why does blog look ok with errors on IE? Yes I need more hours in a day to learn all this just right now its all I can do to go to work and keep up with posting. I have to fix this though.
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All browsers are different in how they render pages, and apparently Firefox in its latest version has an issue with some of the code or stuff in the CSS stylesheet and is not rendering the page correctly.
I don’t know for a fact that the issues are caused by the errors that W3C is reporting, but I would fix that text widget stuff (paste what I have posted above) and see what happens.
Do contact support so that they can take a look at things. I think they are going to have to make an adjustment so that things appear correctly with Firefox.
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Ok I made the change on the widget. The W3C validator now shows 9 errors instead of 31. Firefox display still not ok. Will contact support about that. I don’t know what the 9 errors are about exactly.
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Even if and when you get the validator to show zero errors, the theme you’re using will still have no room for more than one row of header tabs.
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