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I installed GL-1.5 quite easily (thanks, developers!) and found no edit icon in static pages in the center block (when displaying the home page of my site with the default Professional theme), though I logged in as admin.

After doing a little search through the code, I think this has something to do with geeklog/plugins/staticpages/templates/centerblock.thtml, which doesn't contain {edit_icon} template var. After I added {edit_icon} to the template file, edit icon shows itself as in GL-1.4.1.

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-- mystral-kk, "Every cloud has a silver lining."

That was actually a conscious decision:
The old template was trying to make it look like a story block, but it didn't quite work out and you don't usually need the printer icon on a centerblock. And then I couldn't find a good spot to put the edit icon, so I took that out as well.

But since it's a template, it's easy to put back in. If you have any suggestion as to where the edit icon should go, let's hear them.

bye, Dirk

Thanks for the quick reply, Dirk.

For non-admin users to see the site, I quite agree with you. Date and print icons are of little use. However, for admins to edit static pages, especially when they are designing the static pages, the edit icon which you can click at the home page is quite handy.

So I suggest changing centerblock.thtml like:

{content}
<p class="alignright">{edit_icon}</p>

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-- mystral-kk, "Every cloud has a silver lining."

That would of course leave an empty paragraph for everyone without edit permissions. Shouldn't hurt, but it's not very elegant.

bye, Dirk

If you are running CTL you can do this to avoid the extra paragraph for users that can't edit the static page:
{content}
{!if edit_icon}
<p class="alignright">{edit_icon}</p>
{!endif}

Sure, it's not very elegant, but I would prefer handiness to elegance.

Joe, thanks for your info. I haven't introduced CTL yet, but when I upgrade my site to GL-1.5, I will try CTL.

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-- mystral-kk, "Every cloud has a silver lining."

+1 for a direct link to edit static pages

::Ben

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I'm available to customise your themes or plugins for your Geeklog CMS