diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
index b96bdeb67a..fc663e557a 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ describe('loadBlog', () => {
       } as LoadContext,
       {
         path: pluginPath,
+        editUrl:
+          'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website-1x',
       },
     );
     const {blogPosts} = await plugin.loadContent();
@@ -50,12 +52,15 @@ describe('loadBlog', () => {
       ...blogPosts.find(v => v.metadata.title === 'date-matter').metadata,
       ...{prevItem: undefined},
     }).toEqual({
+      editUrl:
+        'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website-1x/blog/date-matter.md',
       permalink: '/blog/2019/01/01/date-matter',
       readingTime: 0.02,
       source: path.join('@site', pluginPath, 'date-matter.md'),
       title: 'date-matter',
       description: `date inside front matter`,
       date: new Date('2019-01-01'),
+      prevItem: undefined,
       tags: [],
       nextItem: {
         permalink: '/blog/2018/12/14/Happy-First-Birthday-Slash',
@@ -68,6 +73,8 @@ describe('loadBlog', () => {
       blogPosts.find(v => v.metadata.title === 'Happy 1st Birthday Slash!')
         .metadata,
     ).toEqual({
+      editUrl:
+        'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website-1x/blog/2018-12-14-Happy-First-Birthday-Slash.md',
       permalink: '/blog/2018/12/14/Happy-First-Birthday-Slash',
       readingTime: 0.01,
       source: path.join(
@@ -90,6 +97,8 @@ describe('loadBlog', () => {
       ...blogPosts.find(v => v.metadata.title === 'no date').metadata,
       ...{prevItem: undefined},
     }).toEqual({
+      editUrl:
+        'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website-1x/blog/no date.md',
       permalink: noDatePermalink,
       readingTime: 0.01,
       source: noDateSource,
@@ -97,6 +106,7 @@ describe('loadBlog', () => {
       description: `no date`,
       date: noDateSourceBirthTime,
       tags: [],
+      prevItem: undefined,
       nextItem: {
         permalink: '/blog/2020/02/27/draft',
         title: 'draft',
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts
index 863a3d2efc..aa876e49f0 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/blogUtils.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ import path from 'path';
 import readingTime from 'reading-time';
 import {Feed} from 'feed';
 import {PluginOptions, BlogPost, DateLink} from './types';
-import {parse, normalizeUrl, aliasedSitePath} from '@docusaurus/utils';
+import {
+  parse,
+  normalizeUrl,
+  aliasedSitePath,
+  getEditUrl,
+} from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import {LoadContext} from '@docusaurus/types';
 
 export function truncate(fileString: string, truncateMarker: RegExp) {
@@ -86,7 +91,13 @@ export async function generateBlogPosts(
   {siteConfig, siteDir}: LoadContext,
   options: PluginOptions,
 ) {
-  const {include, routeBasePath, truncateMarker, showReadingTime} = options;
+  const {
+    include,
+    routeBasePath,
+    truncateMarker,
+    showReadingTime,
+    editUrl,
+  } = options;
 
   if (!fs.existsSync(blogDir)) {
     return [];
@@ -103,8 +114,12 @@ export async function generateBlogPosts(
     blogFiles.map(async (relativeSource: string) => {
       const source = path.join(blogDir, relativeSource);
       const aliasedSource = aliasedSitePath(source, siteDir);
+      const refDir = path.parse(blogDir).dir;
+      const relativePath = path.relative(refDir, source);
       const blogFileName = path.basename(relativeSource);
 
+      const editBlogUrl = getEditUrl(relativePath, editUrl);
+
       const fileString = await fs.readFile(source, 'utf-8');
       const {frontMatter, content, excerpt} = parse(fileString);
 
@@ -140,6 +155,7 @@ export async function generateBlogPosts(
             routeBasePath,
             frontMatter.id || toUrl({date, link: linkName}),
           ]),
+          editUrl: editBlogUrl,
           source: aliasedSource,
           description: frontMatter.description || excerpt,
           date,
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts
index 8dd9cecd53..fe833e4834 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/index.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ const DEFAULT_OPTIONS: PluginOptions = {
   showReadingTime: true,
   remarkPlugins: [],
   rehypePlugins: [],
+  editUrl: undefined,
   truncateMarker: /<!--\s*(truncate)\s*-->/, // Regex.
 };
 
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/types.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/types.ts
index 174e67ad6e..80c9ddd6b4 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog/src/types.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export interface PluginOptions {
     copyright: string;
     language?: string;
   };
+  editUrl?: string;
 }
 
 export interface BlogTags {
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ export interface MetaData {
   prevItem?: Paginator;
   nextItem?: Paginator;
   truncated: boolean;
+  editUrl?: string;
 }
 
 export interface Paginator {
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/src/metadata.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/src/metadata.ts
index 1a276ca592..6dfd498243 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/src/metadata.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/src/metadata.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
   parse,
   aliasedSitePath,
   normalizeUrl,
-  posixPath,
+  getEditUrl,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import {LoadContext} from '@docusaurus/types';
 
@@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ export default async function processMetadata({
 
   const relativePath = path.relative(siteDir, filePath);
 
-  const docsEditUrl = editUrl
-    ? normalizeUrl([editUrl, posixPath(relativePath)])
-    : undefined;
+  const docsEditUrl = getEditUrl(relativePath, editUrl);
 
   const {frontMatter = {}, excerpt} = parse(await fileStringPromise);
   const {sidebar_label, custom_edit_url} = frontMatter;
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/BlogPostPage/index.js b/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/BlogPostPage/index.js
index ad3c90d02e..a939baff25 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/BlogPostPage/index.js
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/BlogPostPage/index.js
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ import BlogPostPaginator from '@theme/BlogPostPaginator';
 function BlogPostPage(props) {
   const {content: BlogPostContents} = props;
   const {frontMatter, metadata} = BlogPostContents;
+  const {title, description, nextItem, prevItem, editUrl} = metadata;
+
   return (
-    <Layout title={metadata.title} description={metadata.description}>
+    <Layout title={title} description={description}>
       {BlogPostContents && (
         <div className="container margin-vert--xl">
           <div className="row">
@@ -26,12 +28,30 @@ function BlogPostPage(props) {
                 isBlogPostPage>
                 <BlogPostContents />
               </BlogPostItem>
-              {(metadata.nextItem || metadata.prevItem) && (
+              <div>
+                {editUrl && (
+                  <a href={editUrl} target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">
+                    <svg
+                      fill="currentColor"
+                      height="1.2em"
+                      width="1.2em"
+                      preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet"
+                      viewBox="0 0 40 40"
+                      style={{
+                        marginRight: '0.3em',
+                        verticalAlign: 'sub',
+                      }}>
+                      <g>
+                        <path d="m34.5 11.7l-3 3.1-6.3-6.3 3.1-3q0.5-0.5 1.2-0.5t1.1 0.5l3.9 3.9q0.5 0.4 0.5 1.1t-0.5 1.2z m-29.5 17.1l18.4-18.5 6.3 6.3-18.4 18.4h-6.3v-6.2z" />
+                      </g>
+                    </svg>
+                    Edit this page
+                  </a>
+                )}
+              </div>
+              {(nextItem || prevItem) && (
                 <div className="margin-vert--xl">
-                  <BlogPostPaginator
-                    nextItem={metadata.nextItem}
-                    prevItem={metadata.prevItem}
-                  />
+                  <BlogPostPaginator nextItem={nextItem} prevItem={prevItem} />
                 </div>
               )}
             </div>
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/index.ts
index 3336bbdfbe..a689d5d071 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-utils/src/index.ts
@@ -273,3 +273,9 @@ export function aliasedSitePath(filePath: string, siteDir: string) {
   // the '@site'. Let webpack loader resolve it.
   return `@site/${relativePath}`;
 }
+
+export function getEditUrl(fileRelativePath: string, editUrl?: string) {
+  return editUrl
+    ? normalizeUrl([editUrl, posixPath(fileRelativePath)])
+    : undefined;
+}
diff --git a/website/docs/using-plugins.md b/website/docs/using-plugins.md
index cbce525bf1..33e05c32a1 100644
--- a/website/docs/using-plugins.md
+++ b/website/docs/using-plugins.md
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ module.exports = {
          * relative to site dir
          */
         path: 'blog',
+        /**
+         * URL for editing a blog post, example: 'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website/blog/'
+         */
+        editUrl:
+          'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website/blog/',
         /**
          * URL route for the blog section of your site
          * do not include trailing slash
diff --git a/website/docusaurus.config.js b/website/docusaurus.config.js
index 1017cdc230..31a8a5e51c 100644
--- a/website/docusaurus.config.js
+++ b/website/docusaurus.config.js
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ module.exports = {
         },
         blog: {
           path: '../website-1.x/blog',
+          editUrl:
+            'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website-1.x/',
           postsPerPage: 3,
           feedOptions: {
             type: 'all',