Title: help with sidebar code please
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# help with sidebar code please

 *  Resolved [geekgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekgirl/)
 * (@geekgirl)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sidebar-code-please/)
 * My site is located at lovelatoya.com
    and in my sidebar I tried to manually add
   the calender and custom titles I made. Here is a portion of my code (which is
   wrong because now my site won’t validate)…
 *     ```
       <h2 class="sidebartitle"><center><img src="images/cat.gif" alt="categories"/></center></h2>
       <ul class="list-cat">
       <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>
       ```
   
 *     ```
       <h2 class="sidebartitle"></h2>
       <?php get_calendar(); ?>
       <h2 class="sidebartitle"><center><img src="images/archive.gif" alt="archive"/></center></h2>
       <ul class="list-archives">
       ```
   
 * `<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>`
 * Although it looks right in my browser, the code is not correct and I’m not sure
   how to fix it. When I tried to validate my code it was telling me that I cant
   use the “center” tags there and that I placed the “li” wrong….Any suggestions?

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 *  Thread Starter [geekgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekgirl/)
 * (@geekgirl)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sidebar-code-please/#post-644236)
 * Oh yea, the part of the above code that is in the bold print is the part that
   I edited.
 *  [Richard Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cregy/)
 * (@cregy)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sidebar-code-please/#post-644242)
 * Hi
    Could you post the whole sidebar code please? It looks like your sidebar 
   code goes something like this:
 *     ```
       <ul>
       <li>
       Some stuff
       </li>
       <li>
       Some more stuff
       </li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * It ought to look more like this:
 *     ```
       Some stuff
       <ul>
       <li>
       Links etc
       </li>
       </ul>
       <h2>Header</h2>
       <ul>
       <li>
       Links etc
       </li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * You’ll find it validates then. With the centre tag you need to place that in 
   the css. So if you don’t want to centre (sorry I have to spell it like that I’m
   English) the whole sidebar use a class to centre that element. Something like
   this:
 *     ```
       .centrethis {
       text-align: center;
       }
       ```
   
 * It gets a bit more complex with centring other elements. Post the code I’m sure
   we can help.
    Rich
 *  Thread Starter [geekgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekgirl/)
 * (@geekgirl)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sidebar-code-please/#post-644295)
 * Sorry about the previous post, I didn’t realize it recognized my code above as
   html, so I will try again to repost my sidebar code…But since last night I’ve
   managed to get rid of most of the errors I was getting when I tried to validate
   my code, but I still have 2 errors that I don’t know how to fix. Here is my sidebar
   code, any help is appeciated.
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar">
       <ul>
   
         <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
   
           <li>
             <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
           </li>
   
           <?php /* Menu for subpages of current page (copied from K2 theme) */
           global $notfound;
           if (is_page() and ($notfound != '1')) {
               $current_page = $post->ID;
               while($current_page) {
                   $page_query = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT ID, post_title, post_status, post_parent FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = '$current_page'");
                   $current_page = $page_query->post_parent;
               }
               $parent_id = $page_query->ID;
               $parent_title = $page_query->post_title;
   
               // if ($wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$parent_id' AND post_status != 'attachment'")) {
               if ($wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$parent_id' AND post_type != 'attachment'")) {
           ?>
   
           <li>
             <h2 class="sidebartitle"><?php echo $parent_title; ?> <?php _e('Subpages'); ?></h2>
             <ul class="list-page">
               <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&child_of='. $parent_id); ?>
             </ul>
           </li>
   
           <?php } } ?>
   
           <li>
             <h2 class="sidebartitle"><img src="images/cat.gif" alt="categories"/></h2>
             <ul class="list-cat">
               <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>
             </ul>
           </li>
           <li>
             <h2 class="sidebartitle"><?php get_calendar(); ?></h2>
              <ul class="list-calender">
             </ul>
           </li>
           <li>
             <h2 class="sidebartitle"><img src="images/archive.gif" alt="archive"/></h2>
             <ul class="list-archives">
               <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
             </ul>
           </li>
           <li>
             <h2 class="sidebartitle"><?php _e('Links'); ?></h2>
             <ul class="list-blogroll">
               <?php get_links('-1', '<li>', '</li>', '<br />', FALSE, 'id', FALSE, FALSE, -1, FALSE); ?>
             </ul>
           </li>
   
         <?php endif; ?>
   
        </ul>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * <!–/sidebar –>
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sidebar-code-please/#post-644297)
 * Don’t post long code here: nobody can (and will) read it.
    Use [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca)
 * as for “center” as an error: in **X**HTML has been deprecated, and most WP themes
   are XHTML.
 *  Thread Starter [geekgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekgirl/)
 * (@geekgirl)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-sidebar-code-please/#post-644301)
 * Thank you for posting that link. (the only reason I posted my entire code was
   because the person who was trying to help last night asked me to). I removed 
   my calender code which was this….
 *     ```
       <li>
             <h2 class="sidebartitle"><?php get_calendar(); ?></h2>
              <ul class="list-calender">
             </ul>
       ```
   
 * and now my site validates again. Could you please tell me the correct calender
   code? Also should I start a new post since all those codes are in the way?

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