CRED edit links do not display for posts pending review

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Problem:
My CRED Edit links are not displaying on posts that are not yet published.
What's wrong?

Solution:
The rule is this:

if ( 'publish' != $post_status )

So, whenever a post is not published, this won't work.

This is by design.

As edit links do link to the frontend version of a given post, replacing their content with a Content Template or layout containing the form to edit them, and not published posts can not have a proper URL, we only show edit links for published posts.

You need to publish it first.

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This topic contains 2 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Darryl 7 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Beda.

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July 14, 2017 at 8:16 pm #548909

Darryl

I have a custom post type that uses a CRED form to create posts and sets them to Pending Review.

I created a View to display all posts that are Pending Review and used the method described here (https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-cred-editing-forms/) to insert a link to edit the post using another CRED form.

The edit link does not display for any post that is set to Pending Review.

July 15, 2017 at 8:33 am #549016

Beda

The rule is this:

if ( 'publish' != $post_status )

So, whenever a post is not published, this won't work.
This is by design.
As edit links do link to the frontend version of a given post, replacing their content with a Content Template or layout containing the form to edit them, and not published posts can not have a proper URL, we only show edit links for published posts.

You need to publish it first.

July 15, 2017 at 7:28 pm #549115

Darryl

I would like to request that this be changed/fixed.

If website visitors are submitting content that I don't want published and I don't want the people managing documents to have work with the WordPress back end, there's no proper way to accomplish this.

I can display a handy list of posts of any post status so not being able to edit them with CRED is a head scratcher.

What I've done is add a custom checkbox field "Visible" and edited all my Views and Templates to check for the checkbox, but that kinda seems janky.