Title: Remove edit button
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove edit button

 *  [CraigIW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craigiw/)
 * (@craigiw)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/)
 * How can I remove the edit button from all or even a single page?
 * I am running a members-only site, so to access a lot of functionality everyone
   has to be logged in. This is fine for most users as they don’t see the edit button,
   but for the admins it’s very annoying to have it there on all pages as it gets
   in the way visually of a lot of plugin functionality such as calendars, chat 
   windows, etc. I really don’t need or want this inline edit button on my site 
   pages. How can I remove it?

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 *  [alieneila](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alieneila/)
 * (@alieneila)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149518)
 * Your theme should be putting that link in there using the edit_post_link() function.
   You can edit your template files to remove it.
 *  Thread Starter [CraigIW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craigiw/)
 * (@craigiw)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149528)
 * My page says it is using the ‘Default Template’ in twentyeleven. Do you know 
   which php file that is? I don’t see a default.php
 * Thanks.
 *  [alieneila](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alieneila/)
 * (@alieneila)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149536)
 * In TwentyEleven there are 12 files that use edit_post_link(… but the 3 you probably
   only want to worry yourself with are…
 * /content-page.php line 21
    /content-single.php line 52 /content.php Line 80
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149571)
 * Don’t do that, you’ll lose those edits when there is an update. Create a child
   theme instead and make those changes there in the [child theme directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
 *  [alieneila](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alieneila/)
 * (@alieneila)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149575)
 * Yeah… sorry child themes of Default themes is a better choice, I just haven’t
   used default WordPress themes in years and didn’t think about that =P
 *  Thread Starter [CraigIW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craigiw/)
 * (@craigiw)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149601)
 * I am using a child theme. I just didn’t know which file to copy 🙂
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149609)
 * consider to use a css quick-fix, by adding this to style.css in the child theme:
 *     ```
       .post-edit-link{display:none;}
       ```
   
 *  [Don](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d_random/)
 * (@d_random)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149836)
 * This worked for me:
 * You can put the following code in your functions.php.
 * >  function wpse_remove_edit_post_link( $link ) {
   >  return ”; } add_filter(‘edit_post_link’,‘
   > wpse_remove_edit_post_link’);

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Don](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d_random/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-edit-button/#post-3149836)
 * Status: not resolved

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