Make the "edit" button that shows up on the frontend of simple sites available on atomic

[arinoch]

What

I'd like to see (and so would some of our users) the "edit button" we include on the frontend of sites on simple infrastructure available when a user upgrades to atomic.

Why

It will make for a slightly better user experience if we try to be as consistent as possible with our user interface when users change plans. A user in 8199893-zd-a8c upgraded and then came to chat specifically to ask where their "edit" button went. The interaction contains a screenshot of the feature that is currently missing on atomic.

How

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Support References

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• 8199893-zen
• https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/edit-customization-buttons-missing-when-i-visit-site

[Aurorum]

Are you referring to the WordPress.com Action Bar? Assuming that you are, I wonder if this might be a duplicate of Automattic/jetpack#6848.

[arinoch]

@Aurorum - That definitely looks similar, yes. That it's been open since 2017 is... not encouraging. :)

[liviopv]

📌 ACTIONS

• Closed as duplicate

@arinoch considering the Action Bar is a WordPress.com-specific feature, I think it's unlikely that it will even be implemented on Atomic sites, where we're now looking to have them as close to core WordPress as possible.

cc @mrfoxtalbot in case there have been any discussions about this in UCNR.

[mrfoxtalbot]

Thank you for the ping, @liviopv. I do not think this is within the scope of UCNR and as mentioned in earlier comments, this was raised before. For the record, there is a plugin by our very own @RafaelFunchal that addresses this gap partially: https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-post-link/

[RafaelFunchal]

The plugin must be updated to ensure it works with PHP 8+ and WP 6.5.3. @mrfoxtalbot, the plugin code is available at https://github.com/RafaelFunchal/edit-post-link. Let me know if you want/can help me with it.

[mrfoxtalbot]

Thank you @RafaelFunchal.

One more thing, we are soon going to re-introduced the default WordPress master bar for users that opt into the Classic Interface. This master bar includes direct "Edit Post/Page/Category" a "Edit Site" buttons so this will effectively bridge this gap.

[RafaelFunchal]

Good to know that. The lack of an Edit button really annoys some users.

[arinoch]

Not reopening this issue, but adding https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/edit-customization-buttons-missing-when-i-visit-site/?view=all#post-4045674 to catalogue this user's request for similar functionality.

[Aurorum]

Just noting that you could always add the new requests to Automattic/jetpack#6848 so they're still considered for an open issue! :)