Upgrade To 3.04: Theme Broke As A Result

  • Resolved Steve

    (@beforewisdom)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi;

    I was using WordPress 3.03 and upgraded to 3.04.

    As a result my theme, a modified Kubrick, broke
    https://beforewisdom.com/blog/

    I experimented with switching themes. Only two themes have the problem, my theme and the old default Kubrick theme ( latest version ). Oddly enough, the Kurbrick theme at the WordPress.COM free blog site works just fine:
    https://beforewisdom.wordpress.com/

    I experimented with deactivating all of my plugins. No effect.

    I’m thinking about rolling back, but I don’t want to give up my customized Kubrick theme and I don’t want to give up the ability to keep up with the latest wordpress version.

    Any ideas for finding what the problem might be?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Is it the layout that is broken?

    First try to validate your site. Begin with this error:

    end tag for "div" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
</body>
You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

    You probabley forgot to close a <div> tag?

    Thread Starter Steve

    (@beforewisdom)

    Yes, it is the layout. I’ll look at the validation site, be back in a bit

    Thread Starter Steve

    (@beforewisdom)

    Fixed!

    Thanks. It didn’t occur to me to use the W3 HTML validation site. I just always assume it is a CSS problem :).

    It turns out the upgrade was fine.

    I had a bad img tag in a post I made right after the upgrade:

    Old, broken

    <img src = "https://8.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/6/a/collegehumor.e88e7f66b923500ab1e4e21a49519f64.jpg" alt = "'>

    New, fixed ( far right, replace a ‘ with a ” in the alt attribute )

    <p><img src = "https://8.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/6/a/collegehumor.e88e7f66b923500ab1e4e21a49519f64.jpg" alt = "">

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Well done! I always validate first and then look in the css. Not everything has to validate for sites to behave as expected but omitted divs are usually the first I try to fix.

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