Title: [Plugin: Fixed Social Buttons] WC3 Validation Errors – & issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Fixed Social Buttons] WC3 Validation Errors – & issues

 *  [mal2809](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mal2809/)
 * (@mal2809)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fixed-social-buttons-wc3-validation-errors-issues/)
 * Hi
 * This is a very good plugin but there is one small issue that i feel could easily
   be resolved, it fails the WC3 validation for code and after examining the issues
   it appears to be a simple case that & is the problem, in html you need to have&(
   amp;)
 * If you check below you will see its the & issue causing the validation errors
   with this plugin, i would imagine it’s an easy fix and would hope the plugin 
   gets an update.
 * In the meantime i may disable it, my site was fully WC3 valid and i feel proud
   to have it that way when so many sites don’t care thus i would hope the plugin
   gets an update to fix this issue.
 * An few examples of what the validator is saying below.
 * Line 983, Column 131: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “t”
 * An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that
   name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded
   ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause
   of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in “Ampersands
   in URLs”.
 * Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If
   you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as “&”(
   even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your
   entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also
   keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and æ are
   different characters.
 * Line 985, Column 143: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
 * If you meant to include an entity that starts with “&”, then you should terminate
   it with “;”. Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently 
   created an entity by failing to escape an “&” character just before this text.
 * Line 991, Column 138: reference to external entity in attribute value
 * This is generally the sign of an ampersand that was not properly escaped for 
   inclusion in an attribute, in a href for example. You will need to escape all
   instances of ‘&’ into ‘&’.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fixed-social-buttons/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fixed-social-buttons/)

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 *  Thread Starter [mal2809](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mal2809/)
 * (@mal2809)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fixed-social-buttons-wc3-validation-errors-issues/#post-1618474)
 * The WordPress site isn’t allowing me to post the & amp part that i need to explain
   the issue, you should be able to see it though by using the WC3 validation site.
 *  Thread Starter [mal2809](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mal2809/)
 * (@mal2809)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fixed-social-buttons-wc3-validation-errors-issues/#post-1618479)
 * In fact i was just reading that the plugin states valid xhtml, not on the sites
   i checked out and that includes the plugin authors home site.
 * Anyway i hope this can be fixed soon as i do love the look of this plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [mal2809](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mal2809/)
 * (@mal2809)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fixed-social-buttons-wc3-validation-errors-issues/#post-1618480)
 * Ok i went into the fixed-social-buttons/fixed-social.php and edited it, simply
   replacing the & with the additional amp; part and hey presto it now validates.

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