Title: Edit Button not working
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Edit Button not working

 *  [OlympiasM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olympiasm/)
 * (@olympiasm)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-button-not-working-1/)
 * HI,
 * I am using the most up to date version of wordpress, WPLMS theme and I have just
   downloaded your fantastic plugin. I have an issue with the edit button. I checked
   some other discussion and I inserted the debug feature in my wp.config php file.
   Then using chrome (i checked all browsers and the problem is consistent) I retrieved
   the Js console data:
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 * What should I do?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/)

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 *  Plugin Author [David Cavins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcavins/)
 * (@dcavins)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-button-not-working-1/#post-6361730)
 * Can you describe what you mean when you say, “I have an issue with the edit button.”
   Is it not appearing, does it not load the edit view for the doc when clicked?
 * Happily, it’s not JavaScript-reliant (the edit link is just an HTML) so the above
   JS console output probably isn’t the issue.

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