[Plugin: DRP Coupon] Program Breaks Validation

So i can help you with this, when do you get this happen as mine is working

It worked here too, but with so many HTML validation errors.

Being that I had no HTML validation errors on my web site to begin with, I decided to uninstall the program.

As of May 12, 2011, the same errors were found on your web page, too:

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.directresponsepublishing.com%2Fcategory%2Fwordpress-plugins%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.2

Most of that validation info is not even referencing the plugin but the wordpress theme and images on site. A completely different thing ( your references arenot related to plugin – and the plugin working or not )

99% of WordPress themes and plugins are not created for HTML Validation.

Let’s NOT confuse other people here…

1. The plugin works ( With or without html validation )
2. Your site will work
3. This is a free plugin
4. Html validation while nice isn’t an issue really

( heck 99% of people don’t even know what html validation is )

Having a plugin on your site or a theme that doesn’t pass html validation isn’t going to kill your site and it isn’t going to slow your site down or cause issues with ranking in google. As billions of sites are not html validated.

Heck let me give you an example – go to google.ca and type the word

cars

Into the search field, the site that is near the very top of the page ranking for the term cars

monsterauto.ca

Has over 307 errors and 40 warnings

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monsterauto.ca%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.2

Do you see it effecting how fast it loads?
Do you see it effecting how google ranks it?

Nope..

As I’ve said before, html validation is NOT important, What is important is making sure a theme, site, or plugin works ( and that I can say with confidence my free coupon plugin does )

To uninstall it because it didn’t validate is a bit extreme in my opinion.

At the end of the day – the plugin works and it’s free

Are you saying that you don’t know how to fix it?
Or that you know how to fix it, but chose not to?

What I am saying is it is a specific request to you, just like someone might ask for a specific feature in a plugin and the majority of the things you pointed out are unrelated to the plugin – they were related to the wordpress theme I am running

HTML Validation as I have pointed out above is not important and has no factor in the working ability of the plugin or performance of a site in the search engine listings, hence there is no dire need to focus on it.

Hence the reason why when large companies develop wordpress themes and plugins they don’t develop them with html validation in mind as it has no bearing on the performance or workability of what they are putting out. ( as pointed out above and provided a link )

In clear terms – The plugin is not broken to fix

Also lets make it clear ( anything which is given away for FREE online – mean no company is under obligation to provide specific support at all as its FREE. Any things requiring attention would be handled as and when a company chose to do it. If it was a paid product then specific requests could be taken into account, and customer requests would have more leverage -. ) This is a free product, so that is not the case