Since RSS plays heavy in a lot of what I do I try validation on RSS feeds sometimes but only when there’s a problem there. It’s surprising how many feeds won’t pass that validation but work just fine.

Guidelines!

And a theme that might pass validation is only part of the question… WordPress may not validate on its own… but it works!

Guideline… if it works then don’t fix it!

That would be a good thing.

If you just need to get a site running and wish to use WordPress then you’ll probably need to accept the compromises made to bring this whole system together.

One other thought I came up with after I posted earlier is…

there are a couple systems to produce static pages from a WordPress system…

One of those is the WP2Static Plugin. There’s a real challenge there. Figuring out if WordPress, a theme, a plugin, or the output of WP2Static caused a validation error.

Me? I’ll continue doing what I think I do best… helping people fix their websites while working with the other volunteers here at support!