Title: Validation difficulties. Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Validation difficulties. * [emmadw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmadw/) * (@emmadw) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-difficulties/) * After reading [ this post ](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/78470?replies=6), I thought I ought to check my site; I failed (though not quite to his 95!); some problems were easy to fix; however, I’m not sure about some: * 1: The calendar – seems to generate 9 errors: I’d included it using the information in [ this post. ](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/24046?replies=4), though I do note that it doesn’t seem to be in the current Kubrick template at all ( my template is the Kubrick one, with a few modifications. * 2: I’ve got a link to [encarta](http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/MapCenter/MapPrintPreview.aspx?lat=-13.773463291380136&long=167.64826186109883&alt=9&mapsize=Medium&mapstyle=Comprehensive&mapstyleselectedindex=0&selectedent=174&entityname=) to a location that a photo was taken … and that seems to generate a *lot* of errors. Google Maps doesn’t seem to have the detail that I want in that area of the world – it’s great for the UK (where I live) & seems to have similiar levels of detail for quite a few other parts of the world, though Google Earth does. * I’ve just tried replacing the link to encarta with one to Google Maps, but that didn’t make much difference – clearly the detail in the URL to get to the point that you want isn’t validateable. * For the time being, I’ve used Makeashorterlink – which does validate, but it then has to redirect to the right page, which isn’t as clean as going straight there. * Most of the other errors seem to arise from the side bar things that I’ve added in, (i.e. things that were commented out in the original theme) – and it seems to be mostly lists where they shouldn’t be. * Emma * P.S. The Blog is [http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/](http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/) I am still experimenting with things, so I might manage to get the errors down to below the current count of 10) Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/) * (@yosemite) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-difficulties/#post-415505) * Good for you, validation is a lot more then just ‘following rules’ (I hate following rules ;’). * You’ve got some unclosed tags. Take a look in your `wp-content/themes/Emma/header. php`, check out the meta tags. Your ICBM one isn’t closed (needs the slash at the end). * Remember that everytime you use a tag in xhtml, you have to ‘close’ it. So, a`
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