Probably the easiest way to do it is to set the doctype, etc and then use the w3c xhtml validator and just go through one by one and pick off the errors…but that will take A LOT of time, I strongly recommend you leave it as is.
In an old project, I ended up writing my own. And working with WordPress library to feed the players (audio and video), so there’s no foreign UI and a template builds the player with the proper attachment info. The audio player was implemented with JPlayer. The jQuery HTML5 Audio / Video Library jPlayer is the … Read more
The w3 specification says that only h-tags are allowed inside of the hgroup-tag. The basic purpose of it is to group a main-headline and a sub-headline together. <hgroup> <h1>My maintitle</h1> <h2>Subtitle of my content</h2> </hgroup> edit html5 also adds the header-tag to use within the body. Inside of this any other html element is allowed. … Read more
Add html plugin into wordpress
Empty paragraphs around figure and figcaption tags when using markdown
The content you input via editor is saved as such, there would be no straightforward way to untangle styles from it and output it in the head of the page. Doable, but far form convenient. You might want to look into adding extra input for such elements to post editor, save data in custom field, … Read more
There is no one format that works on all browsers, for example, Firefox won’t play MP4 files due to FF not having the license to use the MP4 codec. You definitely need OGV and MP4 versions, the others will depend on other browsers and choice, it’s better to upload all versions to give you piece … Read more
I would use Custom Meta Post Boxes as seen in this tutorial: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/ You can add your own “Soundcloud ID” field which is entered in each post in a separate box. That will expose the needed data to your theme files in a much easier way. From here you can adjust your single post and … Read more
I asked a more general (non-WordPress specific) question about polyfilling on StackOverflow (I strongly recommend reading through the ensuing comments for context) which has lead me to the following answer: add_action( ‘login_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wpse_215432_oldbrowsersupport’); function wpse_215432_oldbrowsersupport() { wp_register_script( ‘ie_html5shiv’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri().’/js/html5shiv.min.js’, __FILE__, false, ‘3.7.3’ ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘ie_html5shiv’); wp_script_add_data( ‘ie_html5shiv’, ‘conditional’, ‘lt IE 9’ ); //Note: Placeholder script … Read more
You can add HTML5 support which will be very useful. I will consider that you won’t be testing your new wordpress theme on all the real devices due to which you should add HTML5 support in functions.php. You can frame the code as below: function customTheme_setup() { // HTML support add_theme_support( ‘html5’, array( ‘search-form’ ) … Read more