Title: Validation Errors
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Validation Errors

 *  Resolved [oldskool73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldskool73/)
 * (@oldskool73)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-24/)
 * Hi,
 * When I run my pages through the W3C validator your plugin output gives multiple
   errors as the href URL’s aren’t encoded and contain raw ampersands.
 *     ```
       line 447: & did not start a character reference. (& probably should have been escaped as &.)
       ```
   
 * A quick fix for my needs was to url encode the link on line 441 of custom-facebook-
   feed.php…
 *     ```
       if ($cff_title_link) $cff_post_text .= '<a class="cff-post-text-link" href="'.urlencode($link).'" '.$target.'>';
       ```
   
 * Not sure if this also occurs at other points in the code as we’re using a very
   stripped down output.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-facebook-feed/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-facebook-feed/)

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 *  Plugin Author [smashballoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smashballoon/)
 * (@smashballoon)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-24/#post-4249998)
 * Hey oldskool, thanks for the heads up. I’ll add the urlencode function to the
   links in the next update.
 * Thanks again,
 * John

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-24/#post-4249998)
 * Status: resolved