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Amanda Moore
4,151 PointsEditing a wordpress child theme
I am doing some w3 validation checks for a friend's site and I can't figure out how to get to the code so i can edit it. he's using a child theme for genesis and the code I need to edit isn't showing under the child theme and when I look at the genesis files it says not to edit anything there. So, where can I fix the validation errors? Thanks
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Paul Graham
1,396 PointsWell you probably can't or don't want to bother. Validation is not a gospel, it's just a way for programmers to understand where their code has problems or might be malformed. Like any other parser, sometimes the validator will choke on code that's actually 100% valid. That doesn't mean there's not a problem in the code but trying to chase down a valid site with a CMS is probably a fool's errand, and arguably not even valuable.
It really depends on what those validator errors are if they are actually important. There's nothing a working valid site gains over a working non-valid site, really just for being valid.
That being said, it's possible to dump specific parts of the Genesis code and replace it with your own. That's just a matter of figuring out what's running on a particular hook and using a remove_action() on it.