Webmaster Tools isn't happy with my wordpress, please help

[TopherX]

I have a number of wordpress sites that are all having the same problem. In Webmaster tools I'm getting 404 error messages. But the list of urls doesn't make any sense:

http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help
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Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/10/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...t-ratings.html 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 13, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/12/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/12/fret-dreams/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 13, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 13, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 13, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 13, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...hats-evil.html 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 16, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...elygirl15.html 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 15, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/07/13/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 12, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 12, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/1/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/2/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 14, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 14, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/7/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 9, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/2008/...sandfights.com 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 16, 2008
http://www.tightsandfights.com/about/the-cast-of-tights-and-fights/<li class= 404 (Not found)Help Help
Sep 8, 2008

For some reason google is adding either the domain or "<li class=" to the end of all these urls. But I can't figure out why?? Please help.

The sitemap is correct:

http://www.tightsandfights.com/sitemap.xml

Any ideas?

[Mittineague]

I didn't check them all, but
http://www.tightsandfights.com/about/the-cast-of-tights-and-fights/
view-source shows

<div id="topmenu_links"><ul>
<li><a title="Original Video Series" href="<li class="page_item page-item-59">
<a href="http://www.tightsandfights.com/home/" title="Home">Home</a></li>

And in Opera, http://www.tightsandfights.com/2007/10/overnight-ratings.html shows

<title>Nothing found for  2007 10 Overnight-ratings</title>

[TopherX]

Here's the php for that menu:

<div id="topmenu_links"><ul><li><a title="Original Video Series" href="<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?><li>|</li><li><?php wp_loginout(); ?> </li></ul>
</div><br/>

What did I do wrong?

[TopherX]

so I took out:

<a title="Original Video Series" href="

And I think that fixes that one. But what about the links with the domain repeated after it? Any ideas?

[TopherX]

So I'm thinking the problem is in this piece of code:

<div class="datetime">
<?php the_time('l') ?>, <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php the_time('Y/n') ?>"><?php the_time('F') ?></a> <?php the_time('jS') ?>, <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php the_time('Y') ?>"><?php the_time('Y') ?></a> - <?php the_time() ?><br/>
Filed Under: <?php the_category(', ') ?> 
</div>

This is part of the blog navagation. Am I doing this right?

[Mittineague]

It's good you found the problem for that one at least. I couldn't find any links like
site/year/month/title/site
anywhere. Any idea what page the links are coming from?
Maybe a template file with a misplaced get_option('home') in a link loop?

Edit:
That looks OK to me, It should look something like

Tuesday, <a href="site/2008/09/">September</a> 23rd,
<a href="site/2008">2008</a> - 4:57 pm<br/>

I don't see an extra "site" at the end there.

Look for the bloginfo('url'); where it shouldn't be.

[TopherX]

I"m wondering if the open <a> tag was cascading through all the links...maybe just for the spider.

But the loop thing, that could be. I'm pretty new to php and wordpress and build all these sites off of the same root template that I coded myself.

This is the loop I've built for a single post:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>


<div class="post_title">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</div> <!– close post title –>

<div class="post_content">
<?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>
</div> <!– close post content –>

<div class="navigation">
<?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link', 'Previous Episode', TRUE); ?> ∞
<?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;', 'Next Episode', TRUE); ?>
</div>


<div class="datetime">
<?php the_time('l') ?>, <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php the_time('Y/n') ?>"><?php the_time('F') ?></a> <?php the_time('jS') ?>, <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/<?php the_time('Y') ?>"><?php the_time('Y') ?></a> - <?php the_time() ?><br/>
Filed Under: <?php the_category(', ') ?> 
</div>

<div class="post_tag">
<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">Subscribe</abbr>'); ?></a> 

<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {// Both Comments and Pings are open ?> | <a href="#respond">Comment</a> | <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?>" rel="trackback">Trackback</a><br/>


<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {// Only Pings are Open ?> | <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?> " rel="trackback">Trackback</a> | 


<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>    You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>

<?php } edit_post_link('Edit','',''); ?>


            </div>

    <?php comments_template(); ?>

    <?php endwhile; else: ?>

        <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

Feel free to critique it in general.

Thanks everyone

[TopherX]

It must be this line:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

Do I need the <a> if I'm using:

<?php the_permalink() ?>

[Mittineague]

I looked at several themes' index.php files

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_time('j F Y'); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" class="postlink" title="<?php bloginfo('name');?>: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e('Permanent link to'); ?> <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permalink for <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php printf(__('Permalink to &#37;s', 'sandbox'), wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 1)) ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title() ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permalink for <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

It looks like the usual syntax is similar to yours. I'm thinking those links are a result of

<a title="Original Video Series"
 href="<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
<li>|</li>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?> </li>
</ul> 
</div><br/>

 href="<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
<li>

would get rendered something like

 href="<li class="page_item page-item-12">
<a href="http://www.mittineague.com/blog/blog-map/"
 title="Blog Map">Blog Map</a></li>
....[a li-/li for each additional page here]
<li> 

and with the unclosed a tag and mixed up mark-up, it is probable the those site/year/month/title/site links are the "best guess" that the search bot could come up with.

[TopherX]

I fixed the other thing by the way. it was a bad link in the footer http:www.tigh... I guess wordpress or the spider just guessed at it.