My solution for now was to change node.tpl.php to have this at the top:
<?php
global $user;
$approved_roles = array('superuser', 'editor');
?>

and in the header area:
<?php if (is_array($user->roles)) {
if (count(array_intersect($user->roles, $approved_roles)) > 0){ ?>
<h2><a href="<?php print $node_url ?>" title="<?php print $title ?>"><?php print $title ?></a></h2>
<?php }else{ ?>
<h2><?php print $title ?></h2>
<?php }} ?>

Thanks to the help on this list and the info on this page: http://drupal.org/node/104444

Now if you're not an admin it doesn't link to the page, but if you are it does so you can edit it. The only concern I really have about this solution is maintenance - right now there are only the above listed roles for admin editing. However if we add "manager", "content producer" etc, then a change has to be made to node.tpl.php every time that happens. That is of course not ideal for a single use template like this and would be completely unworkable for a reusable template.

Anyone know of a way to query whether the user has edit rights on the node (no matter what their role) instead of whether they're in a particular role? Then I could rewrite this in a way that is more maintainable.

thanks
.sander

sander-martijn wrote:

I'm using node.tpl.php to rewrite the content like this:
<div>
<h2><?php print $title ?></h2>
<div class="content"><?php print $content ?></div>
</div>

So that I don't have the header link bc i don't want the content to show anywhere other than the home page. Thanks everyone for giving me several different options to try. At the moment, for my needs it seems like the best option to get what i need would be to change node.tpl.php so that it links the title like normal if you're an admin. Furthermore I should probably only retheme stories until i get a better handle on the different options.

Metzler, David wrote:

Last I checked, node Title was a required field, and by default, the node title on a home page displays with a link to that piece of content. So how are you suppressing them for the two paragraphs. Are you using panels? Are you supressing the the titles via custom tpl's for specific node types (e.g. story.tpl)? Are these blocks with custom text? Have you customized node.tpl, story.tpl or another .tpl file to remove titles?

As one person has suggested, adding the edit link at the theming layer with tests on which "role" a user is in, is one way to add specific links to editing a node on the page. Could you include more info about how your paragraphs are constructed?

Dave