When a post has an existing "Rewrite & Republish" draft, add "Edit Rewritten Post" to admin bar
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Users are editing the existing post, instead of editing the existing "Rewrite and Republish" draft, because they don't know that the "Rewrite and Republish" draft exists.
Describe the solution you'd like
If a post has a corresponding "Rewrite and Republish" draft post:
- Next to the "Edit Post" button in the WordPress admin bar, add a button of a different label that links to the "Rewrite and Republish" draft.
- Provide a site-wide option to hide the "Edit Post" button for some subset of users (without
edit_others_postsperhaps?), and for them, forceedit_post_linkto go to the draft.
Why do you think this feature is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?
This would encourage use of the "Rewrite and Republish" workflow.
Additional context
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the WordPress admin bar's "Edit Post" button and the edit_post_link() integration in the plugin. Check how Rewrite and Republish drafts are associated with posts and how user capabilities are determined. Done means an existing draft is visibly reachable from the admin bar and the requested site-wide visibility and link behavior are covered.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- backend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100