Validating a Website using WordPress
Validating a website is the process of ensuring that the pages on the website
conform to the norms or standards defined by various organizations. Validation
is important, and will ensure that pages are interpreted in correct format or
not such as validating text field, validating URL of website and many more.
Not all validators check for the same things in website. Some only check CSS,
others text field, others input values and others for accessibility. If you are
sincere in presenting standardized pages to the public, test them with several
validators.
Validation Technique:
Validators detect problems in your web page and style sheet. It could be a tag
that was opened and never closed. It could be a misspelled piece of code or
forgotten element the tag or style requires working properly. You become a
detective, hunting and solving the little problems occurring in your web page.
Validation errors aren't limited to your template files. They can also happen
inside of a post. When you are writing a post and using HTML, WordPress might
not recognize the HTML and convert it to a character entity, or you may have
entered it wrong. If you have a page with a lot of HTML coding, validate it to
make sure you have it all correct.
Validation doesn't just mean putting your pages through some web driven testers.
It also means test-driving it with friends, relatives, co-workers, and
strangers. Everyone has a different system and way of working, so ask for others
to test-drive your styles or themes before you make them public. There are some
validation checklist is used to validate WordPress Website. Let’s see that
validation checklist points:
Validation Checklist:
1.
Validate
HTML/ XHTML
2.
Validate CSS file
3.
Validate Comments/Feedback
4.
Validate Input Field Value (like text field, text
area etc )
5.
Validate Links
6.
Validate Install Theme or custom theme
7.
Validate Plugin (custom plugin code)
8.
Validate URL Structure of WordPress website
9.
Validate Categories and blogs
10.
Validate to check across different browser (include handheld
computer, Mac, PC and cell phone etc.)
Above validation checklist is showing the points under which you should have
validate your WordPress website. Let’s see a brief description on that point:
Validate HTML:
Validate HTML section make sure that your entire website has valid HTML code or
not.
Valid CSS File:
Since CSS file is very important file to website point of view because of CSS
file manages all the content of website, website layout and design and many
more. So it is very important that you have to validate the CSS file. Under this
section; CSS style, CSS browser specific code and many more are validated.
Validate Comments/Feedback:
Validate comments or feedback plays an important role in your site because of
through this section an external user could interact with your website. Under this section; special character
used by user, external links of websites, abuses words and many more should have
validated.
Validate Input Field Value:
Validate Input Field Value section make sure that the input field accepts legal
value and validate illegal value.
Validate Links:
This section checks upcoming links of website either it is custom (created by
the admin) or simple link (submitted by the external user) are in well formed or
not.
Validate install theme or custom theme:
This section validate custom theme or install theme in your website and checks
it works properly or not. Validate to the external user to upload and install
the theme in proper manner.
Validate Plugin:
This section checks that plugin should be uploading in proper manner and checks
plugin description defined in proper manner or not.
Validate URL Structure:
Validate URL structure in your website and filtered it, and match it with your
custom URL structure.
Validate Categories and blog:
This section checks your categories and blog that they are proper attach with
article/blog or not.
Validate to check across different browser:
This section validate to check across different browser explores, your WordPress
website are working properly in different browser or not, if not then validate
to it.
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