K2 Items edit icon missing

Question

I have been trying a lot lately to get this thing work.I'm using Joomla 3.6.5 and I am using JA University Template.I see when I log in through front end I am able to see the K2 edit icon for modules.but I don't see any edit icon for articles (K2 items).I have literally tried everything from user groups mapping to disabling Gzip compression.

please, let me know if I'm missing something.

Answer 1

1. Go to Components -> K2 -> User Groups and check that the group Site Owner has the Front-end item editing as YES also there you can choose what categories can be edited or not.
2. Go to Components -> K2 -> Users and search for super user, edit that account and select the K2 user group as Site Owner.

Save and now Super User should have frontpage edit privileges (if there are no template overrides).

Answer 2

First let's just confirm all the config steps.

1. In the K2 parameters > frontend editing, 'Enable frontend editing'
   is set to yes.
2. You have a K2 usergroup called editors (or something) and the permissions of the editors K2 usergroup includes at least 'Front-end item editing', 'Edit any item' & 'Allow editing of already published items' set to yes. Also the 'Assign group permissions to these categories' setting below is set to 'All' or something else appropriate.
3. Your own K2 user matching your Joomla user is assigned to the editors group.
4. You are logging in to the front end with the right user.
5. You are using a K2 template that still includes the edit button. For example if you have a menu item pointed to a K2 category, the category_item.php file in the template that is active contains the following:

<?php if(isset($this->item->editLink)): ?>
<!-- Item edit link -->
<span class="catItemEditLink">
<a data-k2-modal="edit" href="<?php echo $this->item->editLink; ?>">
<?php echo JText::_('K2_EDIT_ITEM'); ?>
</a>
</span>
<?php endif; ?>