Some users are still having problems with the pop-up login. I think they are actually getting 403s because of the CSRF protection. So I have modified the base template to always have a javascript variable called csrf_token available when they aren't logged in. The ajax_login.js script was then modified to send this value with the ajax post. Fingers crossed.

{% load url from future %}
{% if show_button %}
<a href="{% url 'forums-edit_post' id=post.id %}"><img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}icons/page_edit.png" alt="Edit post" title="Edit post" /></a>
{% endif %}