My blog isn’t valid – how do i fix?

  • I used this blog validator to check whether my XHTML was valid for search engines: https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.thesandinista.com It has come back with over 100 errors! The most frequent errors are “element ‘font’ undefined” ; “end tag for ‘font’ omitted ; “end tag for element ‘font’ which is not open ….
    Help! I am using the new version of Word Press loaded onto my site and a very basic WP theme. All of my blog entries were typed or pasted into the “Write Post” function of WP, so I didn’t do anything funky.

    The help website where I found the validator was: https://www.wordsinarow.com/blogs.html
    I am new to this so what is the easiest way to go about fixing these issues?

    Thanks,
    J

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  • …or pasted

    You did “funky” things! Pasting (especially from Word or other websites) into the wysiwyg editor is a sure recipe for 100 errors.

    Thread Starter atljogger

    (@atljogger)

    So what do i do moshu – edit each post by just re-typing everything directly in Word Press? Would that fix most of the errors?

    Thanks,
    J

    Not all, only the faulty ones.
    Retyping is a lot of work: a workaround could be – paste your text into a plain text editor (like NotePad) before pasting them into WP. I mean NOT directly from Word or other monster stuff ??

    Another way to fix it: disable the wysiwyg and all the code will become visible, so you can delete the obsolete tags…

    Thread Starter atljogger

    (@atljogger)

    Thanks for all the help – down to 13 errors after using the Wordpad fix and pasting directly from there. The problems still relate to 2 separate posts that caused the original 100+ errors:

    there is no attribute “size”
    element “font” undefined.
    end tag for “font” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.
    end tag for element “font” which is not open.

    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesandinista.com%2F

    Delete ALL the font tags from your posts! You don’t need them.

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