Les Jones

WordPress: adding “Edit This” link, recent comments

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | Blogging |

From way back before I began blogging I believed that every post should have an Edit This link. Blame it on Dave Winer. Reducing the pain of editing your mistakes and expanding your thoughts makes for a better blog.

I finally got my wish the other day with a little Googling. Just add this code to your Single Post, Archives, and Main Index Template. You have to be logged in as an administrator to see the link.

<?php edit_post_link(’Edit This’, ‘optionaltextbeforelink’,'optionaltextafterlink’); ?>

I found a new recent comments plug-in that has the behavior I wanted. The Get Recent Comments plug-inhas an option for everything. You can make the output as simple or as complicated as you want. I made it simple: don’t show trackbacks and pings, don’t show commentor’s names, show the subject name, group by subject, and show the number of comments. Bingo.

Here are the settings I used:

Template for the post: <li><strong><a href=”%post_link” title=”%post_title was posted on %post_date”>%post_title</a>&nbsp;<a href=”#” title=”There are %post_counter comments to this posting”>(%post_counter comments)</a></strong><ul>

Template for the comments: (empty)

Template for the closing tags of the post template: </ul></li>

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