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Here’s the link to the validator – I copied the message above from there.

I’m looking at this and I think things are mixed up between list links and list categories.

I’ve upgraded and all my Categories are showing up just fine – I didn’t change anything.

But my blogroll that I used to have show using [?php get_links('1', '[li]', '[/li]
', '', 0, 'name', 0, 0, -1, 0); ?] is now not showing up at all, even when I tried it with: [?php wp_get_links('1', '[li]', '[/li]
', '', 0, 'name', 0, 0, -1, 0); ?]

I’ve been looking at the codex and trying different things but my list of links that I actually had in a links list called (oddly enough) blogroll, is the only one that doesn’t seem to be showing. See https://www.idiotonastick.com/talk on the sidebar.

Any ideas?

Something else I’m seeing in the validator is this:

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the “Strict” document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the “Transitional” document type to get the “target” attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as “marginheight” (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

As far as I know, I’m not using Strict but transitional – that’s also what the code in Line 1 says too, transitional.

Well perhaps there’s someone else who knows what is causing this? I don’t see an error there either, but something’s going on to cause this and somebody must have a better clue than I do, since I have none. While I know html, I don’t have any idea about php and what could be causing this to give a script error on the very first line in the source unless it’s to do with something in the code and not the source page.

Oh, something else interesting… when I clicked on the previous entries, it doesn’t give me the script error icon – it only seems to be on the main page.

So now that we’ve got all the validation issues discussed, which I have now changed and the only validation problems are with the YouTube code and the Radio Blog code, any ideas on what the error icon is for and how to fix it?

I’d really like to have that off there.

Oh, I didn’t put the link on, I typed the URL on there and ended up putting a period at the end of the sentence. It obviously created the link itself from the post. No it shouldn’t be a part of the link.

And the script error I’m talking about showed up in the view source – which of course is not in any of the php files but the source code it shows me when I click on the error message icon.

Oh, and I deactivated the structured bloggin plugin and now there are only 36 errors in the validator instead of 99. Now I just have to see if there’s anything else I can change in there that won’t affect the radio blog and it’s strange coding.

Yes, it was the little icon on the bottom left. I reloaded the page and it wasn’t showing but then I did something else (clicked on something and there it was again).

I don’t know what you mean by the . behind it – are you talking about the code?

Unfortunately, most of those errors are happening with the structured blogging plugin – before I added that my site always validated perfectly. I may just take it off, but I like the formats of the structured blogging for movies reviews and such. The other errors are with the radio blog, however, none of those have to do with the script error for line 1.

I don’t see a script error there, do you?

Great news – that worked perfectly! Thanks so much Les, I can now categorize the pages appropriately.

Thanks very much, LesBessant – you’re always so helpful. I’m going to try it and see if that works. I’ll let you know if it’s good in case anybody else would like this option too.

I’m using WP2 (latest release) and when I create a page, it doesn’t give me the option to select a category – like the dropdown + if I go to write a post – so all the pages I’ve created (not at my website) have a default category of General. It doesn’t show the categories dropdown at all in the list when I go to Write Page or Create New Page.

Can someone tell me how to modify this? I don’t want all the pages showing up in one category.

Thanks very much.

Ok, never mind helping, (helping?) I’ve found a different plugin to use.

I’m trying to use the c2c get recent posts and it works, and it’s formatted, however, when I use the EXCERPT part, it shows me the same excerpt from one post.

So I don’t see an excerpt from each post, but one that was on one day and it excerpts it for each date.

https://www.idiotonastick.com/talk – you can see Previous Posts in the sidebar.

Can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks very much.

Thanks for your feedback. I changed it to 5 posts rather than 5 days and now the posts show up in the archives, but I changed it back and again they didn’t show if I switched it to days, rather than posts.

Is there no way to have that set so that the archives show up properly, i.e., the 5 days worth of archive posts with a “previous entries” showing for the month?