How to get an edit post or edit page link

Some themes do not include an ‘edit post’ or ‘edit page’ link!

It’s hard to believe that such a simple addition can be forgotten and it’s so useful!

A small snippet of code rectifies the problem easily. Here’s how you do it …

• Login and go to Admin>presentation>theme editor
• Open file ‘Single.php’ Single post file in the list
• You can enter the edit link wherever you think best
• example; find the line

<?php the_content('<p>Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?>

and add beneath it

<?php edit_post_link('(Edit Post)', '', ''); ?>

• Save the page and refresh a full blog post page to see your edit link under the post
• Repeat the same process for a page by editing the ‘Page template’ file in the same way

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