[Solved] WordPress: <!–more–> html validation errors

[jamygolden]

I’m creating a wordpress theme.
Every time I add <!–more–> in the back-end posts section of wordpress it creates something that says "Continue reading ".

However there is always a <p></a></p> right below it. I can’t find what the problem is.

Html

Code:

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Php

Code:

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Any help would be appreciated.

[Rob MacKay]

very weird…

[mik3ca]

its normal. <p></a><p> is an error to HTML validation because of the </a>. you’re basically asking any HTML processor to process an ending part of a hyperlink to an unknown location inside a paragraph of nothing.
There are two easy ways to fix this. either remove </a> or change it to ‘<a href=”url”>label</a>’ but replace url with an actual url to a webpage and label will be the text that will appear as a hyperlink.

[Patrick]

By default WP output is:

 

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We can see the first < p > tag don’t have the end tag.

If your theme have the loop.php file take a look on this code:

'.__('Continue reading »').'
');

and changes it to:

and it will output this:

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