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[resolved] Broke something on my pages (9 posts)

  1. djelder
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I am running a site on http://www.buseyzone.com and I think I broke the code somehow and now sure where? If you look at this page, its re-posting stuff from the description at the top of the page and I'm not sure why? Any thoughts or things to guide me to what I broke? Thanks!

    http://www.buseyzone.com/love-intimacy-part-two/

  2. Andrei Olsen
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    You meta description is broken. You shouldn't put HTML in there, but essentially the cause of your problem is the " character in that HTML that you haven't escaped, i.e. \".

    Bottom line, check your header.php

  3. djelder
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Here's the code from header.php I couldn't figure out where the broken code was in there. Let me know if you have any ideas and thank you.

    <?php
/**
 * @package VideoFlick
 */
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

<?php if (is_single() || is_page() ) : if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>" />
<?php endwhile; endif; elseif(is_home()) : ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<?php endif; ?>

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> ยป Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/style<?php echo get_option('videoflick_site_style')=='light' ? '-light' : ''; ?>.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/jquery.fade.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/jquery.superfish.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/jquery.hoverintent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function(){
    jQuery('ul.sf-menu').superfish();
});
</script>

<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>

<div id="wrapper">

    <div id="headwrap">

        <div id="tagline">
            <p><?php echo '' . get_bloginfo ('description'); ?></p>
        </div>

        <div id="menu">
            <ul class="sf-menu">
                <li <?php if (is_home()) { echo 'class="current_page_item"'; } ?>><a>/" title="Home">Home</a>

<li><a href="#" title="Categories">Categories</a>
<ul>
                        <?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
                    </ul>
</li>
                <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

<li><a>" title="Subscribe">Subscribe</a></li>
				<?php wp_register('
<li>','</li>
'); ?>

        </div> <!-- menu -->

	<?php if ( !get_option('videoflick_logo_txt') ) : ?>
	<!-- if standard logo -->
	<div id="logo">
		<a>/" title="Home" ><img src="<?php echo ($custom_logo = get_option('videoflick_logo_img'))!='' ? $custom_logo : get_bloginfo('template_url') . "/images/logo.png"; ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a>
	</div>
        <?php else : ?>
	<!-- if text logo -->
	<div id="textlogo">
		<h1><a>/" title="Home" ><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
	</div>
	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php if ( ($header_ad = get_option('videoflick_header_ad')) != "" ) : ?>
        <div id="topad">
            <?php echo $header_ad; ?>
        </div>
	<?php endif; ?>

    </div> <!-- headwrap -->

  4. Andrei Olsen
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I bet the_excerpt_rss(); is causing the problem in
    <meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>" />

    Probably some character in the feed.

  5. djelder
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Should I remove that line? Or change it or another line of code to something else?

    Thanks Andrei!

  6. Andrei Olsen
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    You can change the_excerpt_rss(); to bloginfo('description'); until you figure out what's wrong with it.

  7. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Delete the line. You already have a <meta name="description" line a little further down.

  8. djelder
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Thank you, that solved the problem! Appreciate the help.

  9. Andrei Olsen
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    That meta line bellow is only going to be added to HTML if the page is a homepage (see elseif(is_home()) on the line above). So, I don't think it's a good idea to just remove the first meta line.

    What he could do is replace

    <?php if (is_single() || is_page() ) : if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>" />
<?php endwhile; endif; elseif(is_home()) : ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />
<?php endif; ?>

    with just

    <meta name="description" content="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>" />

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