Add custom Contextual Links to Drupal node teaser pages

I recently wanted to have a quicker way to unpublish my nodes in one of my Drupal project with Contextual Links.

This mini code snippet will show you how to create a custom module to add links to the contextual shortcut (as seen in screenshot).

The code will also have a custom access check to only show the link for certain content type and custom permission.

<?php /** * Implements hook_permission(). */ function YOUR_MODULE_permission() {   return array(     'YOUR MODULE article unpublish articles' => array(       'title' => t('YOUR MODULE Article Unpublish'),     ),   ); }/** * Implements hook_menu(). */ function YOUR_MODULE_menu() {   $items = array();  $items['node/%node/article/unpublish'] = array(     'title' => 'Unpublish',     'access callback' => '_YOUR_MODULE_article_unpublish_access_check',     'access arguments' => array(1),     'page callback' => '_YOUR_MODULE_article_unpublish',     'page arguments' => array(1),     'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,     'context' => MENU_CONTEXT_INLINE,   );  return $items; }/** * Custom access check for node/%node/article/unpublish menu link. * * @param object $node Node object from menu argument. * @return boolean TRUE if has access, FALSE otherwise. */ function _YOUR_MODULE_article_unpublish_access_check($node) {   if ($node->type == 'article' && user_access('YOUR MODULE unpublish articles')) {     return TRUE;   }  return FALSE; }/** * Callback action to unpublish article. * * @param object $node Node object. */ function _YOUR_MODULE_article_unpublish($node) {   node_object_prepare($node);   $node->status = 0;   node_save($node);  watchdog('YOUR_MODULE', __FUNCTION__ . ' -- Unpublished article "%title" (NID: %nid).', array('%title' => $node->title, '%nid' => $node->nid), WATCHDOG_NOTICE);  $destination = drupal_get_destination();   $destination = isset($destination['destination']) ? $destination['destination'] : '<front>';   drupal_goto($destination); }
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Add custom Contextual Links to Drupal node teaser pages