Title: WordPress Root Folder Thread
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Root Folder Thread

 *  [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * (@mythusmage)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-root-folder-thread/)
 * Index PHP: Invalid
 * Uncorrected…
 *  <?php
    /* Short and sweet */ define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true); require(‘./wp-blog-
   header.php’); ?>
 * Corrected… (correction provided by HTML Tidy, not guaranteed)
 *  <?php
    /* Short and sweet */ define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true); require(‘./wp-blog-
   header.php’); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN”> <html> <head
   > <meta name=”generator” content=”HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 1 September 2005),
   see [http://www.w3.org”&gt](http://www.w3.org”&gt); <title></title> </head> <
   body> </body> </html>
 * (That’s right, in order to be validated the file must have a doc declaration.)

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-root-folder-thread/#post-641923)
 * That file is NOT really displayed ever because the theme’s index is your “display”
   page. So, what is this all fuss about?
 *  [gethelped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gethelped/)
 * (@gethelped)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-root-folder-thread/#post-642080)
 * My index page looks the same way. May I ask what the extra code means and if 
   you understand the code above the “doc” declaration?

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## Tags

 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [gethelped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gethelped/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-root-folder-thread/#post-642080)
 * Status: not resolved

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