[Resolved] Obtaining the post edit link for a content template

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[josephC-5]

Hi there,

I have a page that contains a view that references a content template. I want to add a link on the public face of the site for logged in users so when they click it they'll go directly to the content template. (Yes, it's unusual, but this is what I want.)

When I use the [wpv-post-edit-link] shortcode, the edit link refers to the page the content template appears on, not the template itself. Is there a way to accomplish this goal? The "item" attribute seems close but it's not quite there.

Thank you!

Saul

[Christian Cox]

Hi, are you asking for a way to allow Users to edit a Content Template directly from the front-end of the site using a Form? Or a link to edit the Content Template in wp-admin? Or just to see the Content Template displayed on the front-end of the site?

Forms aren't designed to edit Content Templates, so I don't have a good solution available for that. You might be able to rig something up with a post edit Form and some custom code, but I wouldn't recommend it.

To link to the Content Template in wp-admin, you would create a custom HTML link to the desired wp-admin URL.

To see the Content Template displayed on the front-end of the site, I guess you could insert it in some custom Page using the wpv-post-body shortcode, then create a link to that page.

Did I misunderstand the request?

[josephC-5]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for your response. I'm sorry if my question was vague. I was asking about creating a link to edit a Content Template in the WP dashboard. I was hoping there was a dynamic way to obtain the post ID of the content template so that I wouldn't have to hardcode the custom link (so it would be portable across sites). Do you suppose I could do that through a custom shortcode written in PHP?

Thanks!

Saul

[Christian Cox]

Oh okay that makes sense, I just wasn't sure. You could use a custom shortcode to return the post ID of the template with WP_Query. Content Templates are stored in the posts table as post-type "view-template". The slug will be unique among all the other view-template posts. So a custom shortcode would need to accept the Content Template slug as a parameter, then call WP_Query to get a post by slug (name) and post type. That shortcode should return a numeric Content Template ID, or null if it doesn't exist.

Maybe something like this:

// get a content template id, given the content template slug
function tssupp_get_ct_id($atts, $content='') {
  $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
      'slug' => ''
  ), $atts );
  $args = array(
    'post_type' => 'view-template',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'name' => $atts['slug']
  );
  $cts = new WP_Query( $args );
  $id = isset($cts->posts[0]->ID) ? $cts->posts[0]->ID : null;
  return $id;
}
add_shortcode( 'tssupp-get-ct-id', 'tssupp_get_ct_id');

Then you would build a link tag using that shortcode, like this:

<a href="/wp-admin/admin.php?page=ct-editor&ct_id=[tssupp-get-ct-id slug='books'][/tssupp-get-ct-id]&action=edit">Edit the Books Content Template</a>

[josephC-5]

This is exactly what I was trying to accomplish. The code works beautifully.

Thanks, Christian!

Saul