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Got it! User error is the usual culprit.

Okay, I might have found the beginning of an answer to my question in the Help: “If a custom page exists, but you still are not able to see Page Template selector, try to re-activate your current theme.”

Mmmm…okay…

How do I reactivate my current theme? When I go into Appearance>Themes, my current theme is displayed, but there seems to be no option to reactivate. (I tried activating a different theme, and then activated my current theme, but that didn’t work.)

Gee, this is frustrating.

Never mind – I’ll figure it out.

Here’s something else that I don’t understand. When I go into Dashboard>Appearance>Editor, there’s the list of php files listed down the right side of the page. That list is correctly updated and shows the actual contents of my Template folder. Why the disconnect between that correct list and the drop-down options in Quick Editor?

Should the get-footer code come after the ‘home’ link?

No, the fresh copy displays 131 errors lol.

Here’s the code for the whole back page:

<?php
/*
Template Name: blossom1
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="page">
	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2><br />

			<?php the_content(); ?>

		</div>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<?php endif; ?>  

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

</div>

<a href="https://doborough.com">Home</a>

</div>

I don’t want a theme that validates so much as a theme that plays nice on all browsers. My understanding (a very shallow understanding) is that the reason my pages aren’t displaying properly on some browsers is because there are too many coding errors on my back pages. That might be because of the theme I’m using, or it might be because the tweaks I’ve tried are counterproductive. It could be either. But I take your point about the 131 errors on the theme home page. Damn.

Okay, the validator identifies errors according to the line they occur on, and it labels them that way (eg Line 140, Column 6: end tag for element “div” which is not open), but neither WordPress Dashboard nor Notepad (which I used for tweaking my pages on my site) number the lines. Do you know an editor which numbers pages so I can find and identify stuff more easily?

Well, where to start? Is there a way to prioritize the errors I need to correct?

A question: Markup Validation Service found over 50 errors on the home page, but it still loads and works well mostly. How can a page have so many errors and still work well?

doc4: click on a picture at the top of the home page – it’ll take you to a different page, on which there’s a link to ‘home’. Depending on the browser I use, that link to ‘home’ is only at the bottom of the page where it belongs in IE7. In other browsers, it’s up on the right side of the page. Iridiax found 50-something code errors on the page. Sheesh. I need a course in this stuff lol.

Again, you’re speaking a mostly foreign language to me, but I think I’ll figure it out. Many thanks.

The site address? Ah, right, good idea…

https://doborough.com/

Click on one of the pictures to get to a page.

The only thing I understand in all that you’ve said is your nick, which I like. But I think repeated study of what you’ve said will yield some useful results. Thanks G&T.

Three custom templates and counting…