Title: Bad Links
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Bad Links

 *  Resolved [shackbill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shackbill/)
 * (@shackbill)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-links-4/)
 * installed your plugin and configured widgets for each author page. Their posts
   are listed properly but when i click the post, the link is not properly constructed
   and goes to a 404 page.
 * [sample](http://casi.metroeastdigital.com/about-sheri-miller/)
 * and this is the link it builds: [http://www.casicounseling.org/author/smiller/%3Cul%3E%3Cli%3E%3Ca%20href=](http://www.casicounseling.org/author/smiller/%3Cul%3E%3Cli%3E%3Ca%20href=)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-authors-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-authors-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ColinD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colind/)
 * (@colind)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-links-4/#post-7596485)
 * Hi Bil,
 * Your sample looks like you’ve found an alternative. Sorry I wasn’t able to respond
   in time. I’ll double check that the output is properly escaped as I prep the 
   plugin for WP 4.6
 * Colin
 *  Plugin Author [ColinD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colind/)
 * (@colind)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-links-4/#post-7596494)
 * Hi Bill,
 * The links to the authors’ posts are constructed on line 91 of the plugin:
    `<
   li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"
   class="featured-contrib-story"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>`
 * The link is constructed using `the_permalink()` which is a properly escaped WordPress
   core function. I think you’ll need to look elsewhere in your environment to determine
   why the_permalink() would be echoing incorrectly escaped URLs.
 * Colin

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 * Last reply from: [ColinD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colind/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-links-4/#post-7596494)
 * Status: resolved