Need “Admin” link for footer

Thanks for the replies!

>> when you’re logged in doesn’t the admin link replace the login link?

No, it’s replaced with a logout link. We *can* log out and then log back in, which takes us back to the admin pages, but that’s a double step I’m looking to avoid.

>> Why not just edit the code from within widget.php to what you want in there?

I thought about that, but it appears that it’s a whole module rather than just one specific link…and there may be dependencies on other functions in the widget file that I’m not seeing. I did try to find a specific “admin” block of code in there, but had no luck so far…that was actually the first thing I tried.

I could just hard-code an “admin” link in there, but I’d prefer it to not be visible if a person is not logged in. Maybe I could somehow work this hard link into the conditional that makes the “Login” button change to “Logout”…? That might be my next move.

Found it!!

I went looking for the wp_loginout() function to find out if I could add in a line of code to print the admin link next to the logout link. But, I did not want to alter the code: I wanted a template fix.

Just below wp_loginout() is another function wp_register(), which toggles a “register” link if a person is logged out AND registration is enabled; if a person is logged in, this link toggles over to the “Admin” link I was looking for.

So in my footer template, all I needed to add was:

<?php wp_register('','') ?>

Since registrations are disabled, this shows the Admin page link whenever I’m logged in. Works perfect!