doodlebee, cut me some slack here = what exactly is a backtick? ;-0
that key next to the number 1 on your keyboard.
ok, back to mini-post options which are set up below… does this look like it is affecting my code for validation regarding otto’s comments on the line break and href code? that’s because my markup in the write/post section is correct but when i look at source code it is not…
mini-post format code = <br>%date% %post% %more% %commentcount%<br />
more format code = <a href=%permalink%>
does the percent = quotation marks?
hmm, i just noticed the backtick blurb written right next to the “send post” button!
regarding the no “title” i am not sure where i put in the title. i did delete the title blurb in general options as i wanted a custom title logo jpg on top. is that the problem?
Honeslty, Ron, I don’t know. the % thing – the only time I’ve ever seen that used – is for the permalink structure. I’ve never seen it used within a post before.
*However* you say you’re using a plugin for these posts – so it could very well be that the plugin calls for you to use the % within the called-in code. I don’t know, I’ve never used it. (But doesn’t Blogger and Movable Type use the % for code? Is this a WordPress plugin? Just checking.)
Now, if you’re placing this stuff right inside of a post (like adding this code in the “write post” area) and the issue is that it’s being broken up with <br /> tags, then I would venture a guess and say it’s the WordPress filter that’s doing it. I can’t remember exactly which one does this…wpautop adds the <p> tags, wptexturize or wp_specialchars does the “pretty quotes” stuff…
Anyway, if you can find which of those filters are plopping in those <br /> tags, then you could comment it out.
Oh wait – maybe you don’t need to. Are you using the Visual Rich Editor? Try turning that off first and see if it works. (You’ll have to republish the post, by the way…it won’t “revert” it for you. You’ll have to turn it off, go back and edit out the unwanted stuff and republish.)
If *that* helps, then you won’t need to dig into the filters.
we can mark this thread resolved. during the month i have learned a bit more about the validator and how picky firefox is (not complaining as i really like this browser) and that the code has to be correct for best results. i have a lot of errors in my code which could have been caused by rich text editor, whatever. i learned that even though it looks good in my wordpress editor, if the source looks bad then it is bad = problems somewhere down the road. i’ll re-raise this question again if i need to.
