Movable Type Knowledge Base: Edit Links In Search Page

Question

On my search results page, an edit entry link is included for each result, and when I click that link, it takes me to the Edit Entry screen for that entry. I don't want my visitors editing my entries!

Answer

The default search template contains the tag <MTEntryEditLink>, which is generating the links you are seeing. These links will only be visible to you if you are logged into your installation of Movable Type (and have permissions to edit the entry in question).

So, the links will not be present to those visitors to the search page who are not authors in your weblog, or are authors, but have no permissions to edit the entry returned in the search results. However, if you wish to remove the link all together, you can do this by making Default Search Template Changes to remove the <MTEntryEditLink> tag.

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