Plugin does not pass HTML markup validation test

  • When validation the markup of our website using the validator tool provided by https://validator.w3.org/, we get quite a few errors related to html tags generated by Rich Reviews.

    1. Error: Bad value decembrie 21, 2018 for attribute datetime on element time: The literal did not satisfy the time-datetime format.

    From line 534, column 1; to line 535, column 30
    3:00:35″>?<time?datetime=”decembrie 21, 2018″>?decem

    2. Error: Element div not allowed as child of element span in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

    From line 567, column 72; to line 568, column 64
    /Service”><div?class=”rr_review_post_id” itemprop=”name” style=”display:none;”>?<a?hr

    3. Error: Bad value https:// for attribute href on element a: Invalid host: empty host.

    From line 571, column 18; to line 572, column 30
    </div><a?href=”https://&#8221; itemprop=”url”><d

    4. Error: Element div not allowed as child of element span in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

    From line 572, column 35; to line 573, column 14
    “url”><div?class=”clear”></div>

    Is everybody getting these validation errors when testing with https://validator.w3.org/?
    Apparently, this plugin is not supported anymore and no further updates seem to be underway. So I pose this question for all users fo the plugin:
    Do you continue to use this and hope the validation errors won’t cause too much trouble with Google ? Did you find a workaround to get a page that complied with latest HTML requirements ? Did you find a better plugin ? Any input is appreciated.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter mihaela.g

    (@mihaelag)

    For everyone interested, I’ve found another reviews plugin, one which gives less warnings/errors in html validation. It’s called WP Customer Reviews. It has good reviews. I’ve started using it yesterday and so far it seems to be doing thing right. Mind that you’l have to play with its settings a bit to find the best way to display reviews on a page so that it passes Google’s Structured Data Test Tool, but the good news is that there is a combination of settings that achieves good results.

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