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Hi

I just recently set up a blog for a customer and since most customers don't speak XML I switched the plugin to use the "Manage Links" page.

My customer set up links which had query strings including the usual ampersands which made the links in the frontend view disappear.

Solution:

I added htmlentities() in functions add_link (line 460) and update_link (line 474) so these lines now are as follows:

Hi!

Yes, the manage links interface requires you to add links in XHTML valid format. The problem is that we cannot easily add the patch you submitted because of two reasons:

1. It would break all existing links that people have entered in the plugin, so when they would update, those links would no longer work as they had a duplicate & in them.

2. I belive there once was a reason why we chose not not escape the default output. I believe it was done so that people could add special HTML markup code there, or it might be because with that the XML interface would no longer work... :-/

Regards,
Garvin