Title: Link validation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Link validation

 *  [Michael Heilemann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael/)
 * (@michael)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/)
 * Am I doing something wrong? I can’t get my links to validate, mostly due to &
   and = inside those links (pointing I might add to my own blog! :|)
    [Check it out](http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbinarybonsai.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&verbose=1&fussy=1).

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 *  [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/)
 * (@mikelittle)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-24660)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael/)
 * (@michael)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-24661)
 * But aren’t those links created by the WordPress code?
 *  [Mike Little](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelittle/)
 * (@mikelittle)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-24663)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael/)
 * (@michael)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-24673)
 * 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.
 *  [Dougal Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougal/)
 * (@dougal)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-24677)
 * 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.
 *  Anonymous
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-24699)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awh/)
 * (@awh)
 * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-25286)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [awh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awh/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-validation/#post-25286)
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