Tidy Up Plugin

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2. […] 插件页面: http://www.urbangiraffe.com/plugins/tidy-up/ […]

3. In the instructions you might want to add them to change the file permissions appropriately. I had to chmod the files before any reports could be generated.

   Thanks for the plugin 🙂

4. This plugin is excellent.
   One problem I have is with the ampersand charactor & &, if I have a properly escaped ampersand in the xhtml of the post, then tidy throws an error, but the w3 validator does not (as it is correct). If I ask tidy to clean the post, it does not appear to change anything, and then does not show an error. However, if I edit the post, the error returns.
   Is anyone else seeing behaviour like this?

5. Further to what I wrote, turning off rich text editing solves the problem.

6. aJ: You are correct. Documentation changed

   David: Curious. Looks like WordPress is somehow changing things with the rich text editing. I’ll look into it

7. John,
   A couple of other (pretty unimportant points). The CSS refers to a folder tidy-up rather than tidy_up (I renamed the folder to avoid 404 errors in my stats) and the link on the plugin page links to this page as http://www.urbangiraffe.com/plugins/tidy_up/ rather than http://www.urbangiraffe.com/plugins/tidy-up/. You may want to check this.
   Cheers. The plugin works great.

8. Great stuff. Very useful. I used to to clean up a client site from the invalid mark-up. It’d be great if you could run it on the excerpts too!

9. Thanks for that David, I had underscores and dashes all over the place. I’ve released version 1.1 which fixes those as well as adding support for excerpts, and some AJAX goodness thrown in as well.

10. I receive the following error
    Warning: proc_open() has been disabled for security reasons

    I have CHMOD the files to 777.

    Does this mean my host does not let me execute exe files?

11. Yes, it appears that your host has prevented executables from running. Possibly you could ask them to enable it for you, otherwise you’re out of luck I’m afraid!

12. It would be very useful if this plugin checks the integrity of the post also only before <!– more –> tag, not only on the entire tag, because also the first part of the post will be shown lonely on the summary posts page.

13. And you should change all wp_ occurrences from the SQL queries to ‘$table_prefix’ global variable, because “wp_” is only the default value of a variable that it’s possible to change.

14. Not sure I understand you about the more tag, Alessandro. The plugin checks the entire post, which includes both what is before and after the more tag

15. Hi,
    I installed your plugin but when I check a post the test invariably fails. When I press on clean, go back to post management and test the same post it fails again and again.
    Could this have to do with the fact I am writing this blog in Korean language? Or because there are many errors on my page, outside the post?

16. Hi, i did everything accordingly to the instructions, but when i try to tidy up single posts, it displays this error:

    #816: Failed

    sh: line 1: /usr/local/safe/tidy.linux: No such file or directory

    Has this anything to do with the php safe mode? because my hosting service has enabled safe mode :/

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18. Kuratkull, yes with safe mode enabled you’ll only be able to execute programs in the ‘safe’ directory (it seems ‘/usr/local/safe’)

    Sebastien: It could very well be the Korean text. I’ll investigate this further

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20. Hi John,
    is it possible to modify the plugin
    so that you can validate the drafts,
    at the moment only validates the published post.
    Great plugin by the way and thank you very very much
    for writing it, I tried others but didn’t work,
    yours works very well.
    Thanks again,
    Ezio.

21. Tidying of drafts now enabled.

    Sebastien, I tried tidying some Korean text and got no errors or warnings. I suspect the error may be elsewhere, or maybe you are using the wrong input and output settings for your blog.

22. I am getting all – 1: Failed

    sh: /home/roadless/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy.linux: Permission denied

    1. @Robin: make sure you set the file permissions to 755, not just the permission of the folder. @ John: Thanks for the awesome plugin!

23. Hi Robin, it looks like you need to give the file execute permissions – do this for the ‘group’ and ‘other’ permissions.

24. Hi,

    Awesome plug-in! Thanks a lot!

    I was just wondering if it is possible to have Tidy Up ignore certain tags (warnings).

    For example:

    35: Failed

    line 4 column 4 - Error: is not recognized!
    line 4 column 4 - Warning: discarding unexpected
    line 4 column 96 - Warning: discarding unexpected

    2 warnings, 1 error

    It would just be nice to get rid of “bogus” warnings. Since the code itself does produce 100% valid xhtml.

    Take Care,

    Will

25. Hi,

    My site is in iso-8859-1. Can I use this plugin without problem or what changes do you suggest?

26. you say it works with pages too, but the dropdown only gives me: posts, comments, drafts… or are pages considered posts after 2.1 ?

27. Pages are basically posts without a category, so selecting posts from the dropdown will give you access to both posts and pages.

28. Cool plugin. But please note that tidy is precompiled and may or may not work with your specific linux box. On mine (AMD64/Ubuntu 6.06) it didn’t work until I used the one from the repository.

29. Hi,

    Anyway you could please clean this up to play nice with wp-tiger:

    http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/

    Thanks a lot,

    Will

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32. I`m Getting this error while generating report.

    Warning: proc_open() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/techpk/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy_class.php on line 251

    any idea what to do?

33. Mohsin, your host has prevented the plugin from running Tidy. Unless you can convince them to change their security policy then there is nothing you can do about this.

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36. I’ve tried every possible combo of input/output and yet it always fails for every post when I click clean. No errors are thrown that I can tell. All posts are in English. Any ideas?

37. nevermind – it was a permissions error – my bad!

38. Great Great Great!

    I like to have clean code on my blog 🙂

39. The configuration doesnt me work, I have only small traffic, is this the problem?

40. Thank you very much for this excellent and nifty plugin.
    Super fast, super efficient and awesome!

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42. Hi,

    I get this error when i try to generate a report

    sh: /tidy.linux: No such file or directory

    the permissions are set and the file is uploaded in the correct place “wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy.linux”
    can i manually edit the plugin to add the full path to the tidy.linux file?

    cheers
    craig

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45. couple of items.

    The FreeBSD version is linked against a 4.11 system, while the current release is 6.4 and is very different. I found the linux version worked, since I have the linux ABI installed.

    How can I just check one post at time in WP 2.7? I seem to only be able to do them all.

46. The version update for the Tidy Up Plugin Update I received today completely removes all plugins from the WordPress Plugin Manage List page. I discovered this after my main blog experienced this problem. Later I tried to update a subdomain with the new Tidy Up version and it also removed all list of all plugins. Fortunately I was able to back out of the screen and the I completely removed the Tidy Up plugin and the list of all plugins under Manage Plugins returned. Obviously there is an error in the recent Tidy Up version.

    1. Tidy Up hasn’t been updated in a long while now. I suspect this may be a WP issue.

47. Hi John,
    Does Tidy Up clean only errors or does it also clean warnings?

    I get the report fine, and I never see errors, but I get all the same warnings every time I clean. How can I verify if anything actually gets cleaned?

48. I ran the tidy up plugin and cleanup. The reports say there are not warnings, however when I run the Ws3 Markup Validator I receive 45 errors! What am I doing wrong?

    Here’s just one example

    Validation Output: 45 Errors

    1. Warning Line 103, Column 219: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “url”

49. Hi John,

    Great plugin, it is alway important to have clean W3C compliant content/web pages, so your plugin is a god sense, especially for us who add the few HTML code in our posts.

    I have several posts in Chinese and mixed English and Chinese. I also believe my site and my database are set to UTF-8. When I ran Tidy Up it reported some Warnings in my post correctly, but when I click to Edit the post in question the HTML shown contains strange characters. Then when I corrected the warning reported and went back to look at the post, there are now strange characters in the post.

    Could this be the result of Tidy Up assuming a certain character encoding for the database and display them incorrectly and then after an Edit save these content in the wrong character set into the database?

50. Hi John,

    I have installed Tidy Up and it is generating error reports, but doesn’t see to be cleaning the failed posts. Is there a second step that i have missed?

    Thanks,
    mir

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52. This was working great for me, but now I get permission denied for everything. I gave all the permission in cpanel so I don’t understand what’s happening. I had to install a new theme yesterday (NeoClassical) that may be messing with TidyUp somehow. The new theme has a custom css file that I am new to. My feed is not validating and WP SuperCache says it can’t cache because of an open tag!

    Is there anyone that can help? I appreciate it! (I also wrote a post last week recommending tidy up plugin)

53. I, too, am getting the error:
    I am getting all – 1: Failed

    sh: /home/roadless/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy.linux: Permission denied

    BUT I have checked the permissions and they are set correctly. Thoughts?

    1. experiencing the same issue

54. Hey man. SICK plugin…works great! I had a problem, read these posts and fixed it myself. Thanx much…GREAT JOB!

    I have 2 quick questions:

    1) The plug-in’s admin page says that “you can have the plugin automatically update the data with cleaned XHTML from Tidy.” I’m having trouble locating the functionality for that. Is it in front of my face and I just don’t see it?

    2) WordPress 3.0.x uses an HTML5 doctype. Will that affect things as far as this plug-in’s functionality?

    Again…GREAT JOB! Thanx!
    -kd

    1. It’s on the Tidy Up plugin page – there is an option to replace the data.

       Having valid XHTML shouldnt affect anything with HTML5

55. Hi

    I am Getting this error message home/content/l/u/i/luisiher69/html/wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy.linux: Permission denied

    How an where can I give permission to this plugin

    Thanks a lot

    1. You should contact your web host regarding changing permissions on files.

56. If you get an error such as

    sh: /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy.linux: Permission denied

    You need to install a newer version of the tidy binary.

    On Debian, I did this by installing tidy:

    apt-get install tidy

    and then

    cp /usr/bin/tidy /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/tidy-up/tidy.linux

    This got the plugin working for me on WP 3.0.5

57. I’ve just uploaded the Tidy Up plugin & changed permissions to 755 but I’m still getting a Failed message with Permission denied for all pages. What am I doing wrong? I’ve been to the WordPress forum, done a heap of searches on Google but am having no luck beyond being told to CHMOD to 755 (already done).
    Any help would be much appreciated. I have a lot of errors showing in W3 Markup.
    Thanks, Tess

58. First got a permission error. But managed to clear that up.
    Than the following error came: “cannot execute binary file”
    Is this a problem with my host?

    thx

    1. The binary is not designed to run on the host you are using. You’ll need to find out what the host is, and locate a binary for it.

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