[Resolved] Edit post link not working with custom post status

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[mikaelD]

I am trying to:

Conditionally show two different edit forms depending on the status of a post. I am using a custom post status.

I expected to see:

The edit post link change based on the status of the post.

Instead, I got:

When my condition is based of the custom post status, the edit link does not show at all. When I use a standard post status in the condition it works fine. This seems to only occur for the 'edit post link' shortcode.

If I use the custom post status as a conditional that is just use to display basic text it works as expected.

This works:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-status]' eq 'needs-revision' )"]
    	<p>Some random text</p>
[/wpv-conditional]

This doesn't work:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-status]' eq 'needs-revision' )"]
    	[toolset-edit-post-link content_template_slug='form-edit-profile-conditional' class="btn"]Edit My Profile[/toolset-edit-post-link]
[/wpv-conditional]

[mikaelD]

Update on this.

It isn't the condition that is the issue.

It seems that the toolset-edit-post-link shortcode does not work when the post in the loop has a custom post status.

You can see I have included my custom post status in the View loop filters.

If I change the post status to "Pending", "Draft" or "Publish" it the Post Edit Link shows up on the front-end view. If I change the post status to one of my custom ones "Needs Revision" or "Draft (Preview Mode)", the Post Edit Link does not show on the front-end.

[Christian Cox]

Hi, yes it turns out that the edit post link depends on a "publish" status. If you'd like to extend that to include custom post statuses, there is a custom filter available:

function extend_editable_post_statuses( $allowed_post_statuses, $form_id ) {
     
    $allowed_post_statuses = array( 'publish', 'needs-revision' );
 
    return $allowed_post_statuses;
}
add_filter( 'toolset_filter_edit_post_link_publish_statuses_allowed', 'extend_editable_post_statuses', 10, 2 );

You can add other status slugs to the allowed post statuses array as a comma-separated list. Let me know if you have additional questions about that.

[mikaelD]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!