Why is the post author commented out of themes?
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Recently I wondered why blog entries in many themes never seem to display their author. This seems like a very important feature to me, especially when you have multiple authors on a blog. How are you supposed to know who wrote something? As I poked around the themes for the best place to add it I came across the code already in place but commented out.
Why?
I fixed the problem (by uncommenting it) and added it to single.php as well, but it makes me wonder why that was done in the first place. I feel that the author is very important and needs to be displayed on all posts, and I have modified all of my themes to do so. Since many themes are based off of the default theme they have the same commented author code. I’ve made a patch to update the default theme but I wanted to know if there was a method to this madness before opening a ticket.
I have also made the author a link to the author archive page and added a feed link to the category and author archive pages. The category and author feeds are nice features, but visitors won’t use them if they don’t know about them!
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