Create a Custom Edit Template Link

Continuing my recent dive into customizing and adding functionality to my series of custom taxonomies, I realized that I need to be able to access the edit page for editing these specific archive pages. WordPress has a built-in function for accessing links to the post page, edit_post_link, but this does not work with taxonomy pages.

WordPress didn’t initially implement taxonomies to operate as posts, and while I’m not using taxonomies necessarily as posts, I do include a great deal of data with my custom taxonomies that requires updates. Here is a basic function I wrote that builds a link for accessing the taxonomy’s edit page:

// Accepts the relevant WP Term Object as the sole parameter
function edit_template_link($term){
    if(!current_user_can('administrator')){
        return;
    }
 
    // Define the three variables required to build the link
    $taxonomy = $term->taxonomy;
    $id = $term->term_id;
    $root = get_bloginfo('url');

    // Build the link
    $link = $root."/wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=".$taxonomy."&tag_ID=".$id."";

    // Build and return the HTML element
    $html = '<div class="edit-term-link">';
    $html .= '<a href="'.$link.'" >Edit</a>';
    $html .= '</div>';
    
    return $html;

}