Title: Help needed – W3 validation errors Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Help needed – W3 validation errors * [cpsharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpsharp/) * (@cpsharp) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/) * I have been fixing up all of the errors on my new page, iPhonegamerblog.com and am down to 18. I am having an awful lot of trouble trying to find these. Can you guys help? * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://iphonegamerblog.com/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&group=0&No200=1&verbose=1&st=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.654#line-318](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://iphonegamerblog.com/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&group=0&No200=1&verbose=1&st=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.654#line-318) * Mostly they are xml parsing errors and OMITTAG’s. * Thanks for any help you can offer! * Cody Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316382) * You need to add the missing tags in the relevant template file in your theme to remove most of those errors. Then try re-validating. * Thread Starter [cpsharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpsharp/) * (@cpsharp) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316388) * I know that but the problem is the validator doesn’t tell me which template file to look in for the source code (as far as I can tell somehow it merges them all into one file). * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316391) * No – the validator looks at the output of the template files – which is a single web page. * You have to backtrack by looking at your page’s source code, noting where the missing tag should be and identifying which is the most likely template file ( header.php, index.php, sidebar, php, functions.php or footer.php). * Thread Starter [cpsharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpsharp/) * (@cpsharp) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316409) * > You have to backtrack by looking at your page’s source code, noting where the > missing tag should be and identifying which is the most likely template file( > header.php, index.php, sidebar, php, functions.php or footer.php). * Yep, thats where I need the help. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316426) * Sorry but you either need to learn how to do this yourself or you need to hire an expert. It can be quite a painstaking job and requires access to all of your theme files and post content. * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316427) * I know I’ve had to resort to printing off my source code from the browser, then hitting it with a highlighter, marking off tag pairs….. * Thread Starter [cpsharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpsharp/) * (@cpsharp) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316429) * Thanks for your time esmi but I’ve seen a lot of people on this board be really helpful. I’ll take a chance and see if one of them can help. * Thread Starter [cpsharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpsharp/) * (@cpsharp) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316435) * Down to 14 but pretty lost regarding the last ones that all seem to resove around 2 different div codes. * Thread Starter [cpsharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpsharp/) * (@cpsharp) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316436) * Also if it helps, it seems like all of the errors are in the footer. * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316444) * Scroll down in the validation report and look at the source code and line numbers of the errors. What do you see? twitterwidget-3? Deductive logic; disable that widget and see what happens. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Help needed – W3 validation errors’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [w3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3/) * [w3 validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3-validation/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-w3-validation-errors/#post-1316444) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics