Blog » The Edit Post Link Shortcut
I managed to squeeze some time to write about the ‘edit post link’ despite my laziness and lack of time to write the article on ‘Breaking the Blog Paradigm‘. WordPress theme developers are probably familiar with the edit_post_link() template tag that I have mentioned above. Although the only thing this tag does is to create a link (see screenshot) to edit the current post (or page) that you are looking at (given that you are also logged in), has a very user friendly aspect to it.
Imagine a situation where you have to edit a page and preview it in rapid successions, using the edit post link is the shortest path to take. The conventional way of login in to the WordPress dashboard and clicking ‘Manage’ and then clicking ‘Pages’ effectively involves 3 clicks; as oppose to using the edit post link involves only 1 click. So whenever you need to edit a post or a page, just login to WordPress and go the relevant page and click the edit post link.
Note that not all theme developers use this tag – therefore downloaded and third-party themes may not have this link present.