errors in coding
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Want to fix errors in pages found using w3c Markup Validator. How?
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Howdy,
As a managed platform, you don’t have direct access to the code generating your site. Looking at the errors, the majority of them exist as way for us to provide backward compatibility for older browsers.
The issues won’t cause any issues with the presentation or display of your site.
Is there any issue you were having with these errors present?
Cheers!
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Thank you for your prompt reply. I have no obvious problems with validation yet, but there’s a vast amount of rubbish mixed up with the code.
I totally fail to see why your highly pertinent information about source code inaccessibility isn’t displayed somewhere prominent in Help.
I am trying to initiate Google Website Verification by putting the meta tag in the head information. The site’s help is incomprehensible to me.
The best answer, by a guy with mediocre English, was “now I see”
Every time I try to find a word WordPress use, like upload, I end up diverted into all sorts of irrelevant recesses.A little more information (for people over 40) would be extremely useful to enable my Google site verification to get started. The only place I can see to put the Google file is before my code for the Home page (which is obviously the wrong place).
Thanks again,
NedO
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Hi,
If you’d select Google Webmaster Tools’ HTML tag verification option, you can paste the “content” value of it in the Tools menu in your Dashboard.
We have instructions on how to grab the value from Google and where exactly to put it on our Webmaster Tools support page.
Does that help?
Cheers,
Brandon -
Thanks for your help.
I just got my 15th, 16th and 17th “page not found” message on attempted verification.
So sorry, Brandon, the answer is no.
Cheers,
NedO -
Hi Ned,
Hope you had a good weekend. Looking at what you’ve import, it looks like your last attempt didn’t use the HTML tag method (rather HTML file, since it has a .html at the end of what you added).
In my case, when I go to verify a site, I see this:
http://d.pr/i/LIKVIt recommends the HTML tag method, in my case. If it doesn’t look like that, click on the Alternative Methods, and choose the HTML tag option.
You’ll need to copy and paste the part that is shown on the screen that I marked out for the screenshot.
Cheers,
Brandon -
Hi Brandon,
I can understand that what I put in is an html file.
But is an html tag everything except the [.html] bit? (Your screen shot shows it all blued out: it could be anything.By the way, an outstanding bit of aggravation/exasperation in the Dashboard/Tools – single quotes instead of double quotes with <meta…. Definitely an award winner.
Sorry, the Help site is full of terminology I am having trouble with; “tags” is one of those terms. I just tried your method and it worked. Now I’m verified, but not so sure if it’s a good idea (definitely not your problem).
So , many thanks for your help.Cheers,
NedO
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Hi Ned,
When you select the Meta Tag option on Google Webmaster Tools, it’ll give you a full meta tag to add to your site. In this context, the tag means something like
<meta name='google-site-verification' content='dBw5CvburAxi537Rp9qi5uG2174Vb6JwHwIRwPSLIK8'>We’d just need the part within the quotes added to the option.
In the cases I’ve seen, it is different than the google[somethingrandom].html style.
What you have looks right, which makes sense since you said it worked ;-)
With html, double and single quotes are interchageable, as long as they are paired. In other words, either of these two work:
<img class='something' ref='image.jpg'> or <img class="something" ref="image.jpg">What wouldn’t work is something mix-matched like
<span class="something'>Cheers!
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Thanks for all your help, as well as pointing out about the single and double quotes. All has now been achieved, so this topic is closed for me.
Cheers,
NedO -
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