Link validation

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  • Hi Michael
    The ampersands in your links need to be html entities. That is, they should be replaced by
    ampersand ay em pee semi-colon.
    Fixing that will make the complaint about the equals go away too.
    Mike

    Thread Starter Michael Heilemann

    (@michael)

    But aren’t those links created by the WordPress code?

    Hi Michael,
    I just checked your site and the only occurance of this complaint now is your Amazon wishlist link.
    This is another issue being reported about blockquotes inside paragraph tags.
    Mike

    Thread Starter Michael Heilemann

    (@michael)

    Here’s the thing. I’m using the link manager to post links to ‘features’ on my site (in the sidebar). Those links include the obligatory & inside the link (as with all permanent WP links). But even when I try to ampersand ay em pee semi-colon the ampersand in the link within the link manager, it automatically gets converted to a straight &, removing the entity code…
    Which is frustrating as that makes my code not validate ??
    Also, about that whole blockquote thing. How the hell do I use bq. for more than one paragraph? Is it even possible?
    Thing is that when I use the blockquote tag WP automatically P’s it which results in code that doesn’t validate, bq. is on the other hand – it would seem – understood by WP and so no P is placed before it, resulting in validating code. But say you want to quote this entire post, then you’re kind screwed if you only want to use bq.

    blockquote is like div. You can put p’s inside a blockquote, but not vice-versa. So for multi-paragraph quotes, just do [blockquote][p]blah blah[/p][p]more blah[/p][/blockquote].
    Also, I just tested, and in the current 0.72RC1 code, when you put a link into the link manager, it automagically encodes any ampersands in the URL. So, you shouldn’t have to do anything special when you add links.

    But WP automatically adds P’s to entries, so if I add a blockquote it automatically gets a P placed before it….
    In regards to the ampersand problem I’m using RC1 and I have that problem ?? I don’t know what to do about it either…

    awh

    (@awh)

    Saw this problem in 1.0.1. Came here on Google search. Then found another forum post.
    I fixed this blockquote problem by setting “balance tags” to “false” (in options).

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