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I’ve been using the RDC theme on my website for a while now but one thing that has been annoying me for a while now is the fact that when I am logged in (as an Admin) I don’t get an “Edit this” link for each post displayed. If I want to edit a post I have to go to the Admin area, find the post I want to edit and then edit it.

Today I decided to correct this. Now, when I am logged into my website the titles look something like this:

The work required to get this working really is very minimal and is as follows:

Download the edit icon from http://www.gringod.com/wp-content/themes/rdc0.7/_css/base/icon_edit.gif

Edit index.php, single.php, page.php, archive.php in the RDC theme folder to change the lines that look like:

<ul class=”datestamp”>
  <li class=”icon date”><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?></li>
  <li class=”icon time”><?php the_time(‘g:i a’); ?></li>
</ul>

So that they read:

<ul class=”datestamp”>
  <li class=”icon date”><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?></li>
  <li class=”icon time”><?php the_time(‘g:i a’); ?></li>
  <?php edit_post_link($link = ‘Edit post’, ‘<li class=”icon edit”>’, ‘</li>’); ?>
</ul>

Then you need to edit the css file in <rdc root folder>\_css\base.css to add on line 494:

li.edit,
ul.edits li {
  background: url(base/icon_edit.gif) no-repeat 0 50%;
  float: right;
}

Thats all there is to it. Hopefully the RDC designers will pick up on this and incorporate it into the next release of RDC

The current version of RDC (0.7) is available from: http://www.roobottom.com/wp_theme/?p=16