Custom post type: Add “Edit | Quick Edit | Trash | View” links to date (if title is not shown in column)?

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I’ve created a custom post type for my “Testimonials”, I don’t need a title(s), how can I write a function that Adds the “Edit | Quick Edit | Trash | View” links to “date” if title isn’t shown in the column.

I’m using the plugin “Admin Columns” to hide the columns I don’t wish to show.

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I’m trying to re-use this code from this previous StackExchange question ( No Edit / Delete Links for Custom Post Type? ), however I have already created the fields “Author” etc.

Using this code gives this result.

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This is not easily done as there is no hook to add the rows actions. You can however, unregister the date column and re-register your own date column with the row actions added. A bit hacky unfortunately.

I have tried to ensure that the following code is for post type ‘testimonials’

First register your new date column and unregister the old: (use manage_{post_type}_posts_columns hook)

add_filter('manage_testimonials_posts_columns', 'my_custom_date_column_head'); 
function my_custom_date_column_head($columns) {  
    $columns['date2'] = 'Date';  
    unset( $columns['date'] );
    return $columns;  
}

Then make your new date column sortable, (by ‘date’). Use manage_edit-{post_type}_sortable_columns hook)

add_filter( 'manage_edit-testimonials_sortable_columns', 'my_custom_date_column_sort' );
function my_custom_date_column_sort( $columns ) {
    $columns['date2'] = 'date';
    return $columns;
}

Now comes the fun bit – displaying the content of the column. I have pretty much copied and pasted what WordPress does to fill the date column and then added the actions onto the end.

Use manage_{post_type}_posts_custom_columns hook)

add_action( "manage_testimonials_posts_custom_column", 'my_custom_date_column_content',10,2);
function my_custom_date_column_content($column, $post_id ){
    global $post,$mode;

    if( 'date2' != $column )
        return;

    //**** Display default content of date column *******//

    if ( '0000-00-00 00:00:00' == $post->post_date ) {
        $t_time = $h_time = __( 'Unpublished' );
        $time_diff = 0;
    } else {
        $t_time = get_the_time( __( 'Y/m/d g:i:s A' ) );
        $m_time = $post->post_date;
        $time = get_post_time( 'G', true, $post );

        $time_diff = time() - $time;

        if ( $time_diff > 0 && $time_diff < 24*60*60 )
            $h_time = sprintf( __( '%s ago' ), human_time_diff( $time ) );
        else
            $h_time = mysql2date( __( 'Y/m/d' ), $m_time );
    }

    if ( 'excerpt' == $mode )
        echo apply_filters( 'post_date_column_time', $t_time, $post, $column, $mode );
    else
        echo '<abbr title="' . $t_time . '">' . apply_filters( 'post_date_column_time', $h_time, $post, $column, $mode ) . '</abbr>';

    echo '<br />';

    if ( 'publish' == $post->post_status ) {
        _e( 'Published' );

    } elseif ( 'future' == $post->post_status ) {
        if ( $time_diff > 0 )
            echo '<strong class="attention">' . __( 'Missed schedule' ) . '</strong>';
        else
        _e( 'Scheduled' );

    } else {
        _e( 'Last Modified' );
    }

    //***** END  -- Display default content of date column *******//


    //***** START  -- Our actions  *******//

    //First set up some variables
    $actions = array();
    $post_type_object = get_post_type_object( $post->post_type );
    $can_edit_post = current_user_can( $post_type_object->cap->edit_post, $post->ID );


    //Actions to edit
    if ( $can_edit_post && 'trash' != $post->post_status ) {
        $actions['edit'] = '<a href="' . get_edit_post_link( $post->ID, true ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( __( 'Edit this item' ) ) . '">' . __( 'Edit' ) . '</a>';
        $actions['inline hide-if-no-js'] = '<a href="#" class="editinline" title="' . esc_attr( __( 'Edit this item inline' ) ) . '">' . __( 'Quick&nbsp;Edit' ) . '</a>';
    }

    //Actions to delete/trash
    if ( current_user_can( $post_type_object->cap->delete_post, $post->ID ) ) {
        if ( 'trash' == $post->post_status )
            $actions['untrash'] = "<a title="" . esc_attr( __( "Restore this item from the Trash' ) ) . "' href="" . wp_nonce_url( admin_url( sprintf( $post_type_object->_edit_link . "&amp;action=untrash', $post->ID ) ), 'untrash-' . $post->post_type . '_' . $post->ID ) . "'>" . __( 'Restore' ) . "</a>";

        elseif ( EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS )
            $actions['trash'] = "<a class="submitdelete" title="" . esc_attr( __( "Move this item to the Trash' ) ) . "' href="" . get_delete_post_link( $post->ID ) . "">" . __( 'Trash' ) . "</a>";

        if ( 'trash' == $post->post_status || !EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS )
            $actions['delete'] = "<a class="submitdelete" title="" . esc_attr( __( "Delete this item permanently' ) ) . "' href="" . get_delete_post_link( $post->ID, "', true ) . "'>" . __( 'Delete Permanently' ) . "</a>";
    }

    //Actions to view/preview
        if ( in_array( $post->post_status, array( 'pending', 'draft', 'future' ) ) ) {
            if ( $can_edit_post )
                $actions['view'] = '<a href="' . esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink( $post->ID ) ) ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Preview &#8220;%s&#8221;' ), $title ) ) . '" rel="permalink">' . __( 'Preview' ) . '</a>';

        } elseif ( 'trash' != $post->post_status ) {
                $actions['view'] = '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View &#8220;%s&#8221;' ), $title ) ) . '" rel="permalink">' . __( 'View' ) . '</a>';
        }

    //***** END  -- Our actions  *******//

    //Echo the 'actions' HTML, let WP_List_Table do the hard work
    echo WP_List_Table::row_actions( $actions );
}

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