How do I get Edit buttons to appear for section editing a page?
They appear at the end of each “headline” section. If they're not appearing then check that:
maxseclevel in local.php is something like 3, 4, or 5, depending on how deep you want section editing.
you have at least three sections
your pages are modifiable (
ACL) by the users who are having trouble with section editing.
and that the pages are not read only on the server.
add $conf['maxseclevel'] = 4; to conf/local.php file to enable section editing up to heading H4