Get rid of "Edit Calendar Link" in version 3.0.14

Hello,

You can use this filter to remove the edit calendar link:

https://gist.github.com/nickyoung87/9ec030af79004463e7e0

Thanks, Nick for getting right back to me. I am not a programmer, and I have no idea what that code is or where its supposed to go. I don’t think you could dumb down an explanation enough that I would really understand what to do with it. Could you possibly make that a check box in your settings sheets to either have that show or not show “Edit Calendar” directly above the calendar on their user page or post? I realize that it doesn’t show when a person is not logged into WordPress, but I and my fellow admin’s are always logged into WordPress, and that extraneous “Edit Calendar” is an unnecessary annoyance which makes it impossible for us to judge exactly what the calendar is going to look like for the end user. (without having to log out to view that end user calendar display and then log back in to make any desired changes.)
While the “Edit Calendar” link may be helpful to you in designing your excellent plugin, I think that for the vast majority of WordPress admin’s using your plugin, that link is just an annoying and unnecessary bit of clutter. Its just a negative “feature”.
Thanks much for your help.

I added the PHP code to the functions.php file in my child theme and it created a “white out” for access to my site whist logged in.
Those not logged in could view the site OK

I had to go to cPanel to edit the code out

@d5f7p9,

I am not sure if we will ever add that in or not. For now the solution I posted is the best we can do. The edit link follows all the same rules as normal user roles follow for posts and pages.

@ianyork,

I missed your message before, sorry about that. Did you get any kind of error messages or anything when that happened?

@ Nick
I loaded the code into the Child Theme
Then as soon as I entered the screen when white.
On refresh the screen remained white – No error codes or messages.

I was able to access the site from another browser that was loved into WordPress. and it was working fine. But as soon as I tried logging in to WordPress everything went white

When I went into cPanel your code was in the child theme, so deleted it and was able to access WordPress Admin immediately

I set up a test site and added the code and everything worked OK.
So revoked at my main site a rebuilt the child theme, including functions.php and the code is now working

Sorry for raising false alarms and thanks for the code

Ian

Ok great to hear. Any idea of what exactly the issue was?

Shouldn’t there be a closing php tag?

@nick Young – I have no ida why it worked later in the week. I did not perform any updates and to my knowledge the host was not having any issues (they often don’t declare minor issues if things are fixed quickly)

@darthtater the code i used successfully was entered exactly as listed by Nick and it works for me.

Thank you, Ian. I’ll give that a try. I’m the only one editing calendars and can do that easily enough from the control panel. I also find the “Edit” link to be distracting.

@darthtater,

Shouldn’t there be a closing php tag?

No this is a common practice that is suggested and is better to leave it off when using PHP.

Thank you. I found the functions.php file and it indeed does not have a closing tag. Nice to get confirmation from someone who knows what he’s doing, though.

PS your plugin rocks.

I am having the same problem with Simple Calendar. I thought I had a security vulnerability at first but I see from reading the comments above that security is not the issue and that the problem can be fixed in the functions.php file. I tried that as described above and experienced the same problems with my screen going white. I wasn’t sure where to add the filter code from github, so I just added it to the top of my functions.php file. Everything on the backend and front end of my website went all white. HOw do I get my website back. Do I have to add the code on the server instead of in my theme editor??

Thanks!

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Depending upon what else is in your functions.php file, you probably just want one opening php tag.

I’ve had a few times where my WP installation went whacky using the theme editor.

You could log into your cpanel, using the file manager to locate the file, then open the code editor and add the code that way.

Good luck.