Title: Adding Author Name
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding Author Name

 *  [ajsparxx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajsparxx/)
 * (@ajsparxx)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-name/)
 * Hi, I’m new to all of this and could use somehelp. I am running the X Blog 1.1
   theme at my site – (www.gopusanj.com), and I was wondering if there was a way
   to add the author of the post to the area where it lists the category and comments
   link ?
 * Thanks in advance –

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 *  [ladydelaluna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladydelaluna/)
 * (@ladydelaluna)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-name/#post-490752)
 * Here’s a good example:
 * `Posted <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author() ?> in <?php the_category(',')?
   >`
 * Will result in:
 * Posted (todays date) by (the author) in (the category).
 *  [holsum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holsum/)
 * (@holsum)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-name/#post-491072)
 * All of that information is in the index.php file already but it is not being 
   reflected in the live site. Is there an option in the admin section that needs
   to be activated?
 * -holsum
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-name/#post-491073)
 * No admin section…
 * The WordPress 1.6 Default theme has the the_author code ‘commented’ out so it
   won’t display unless you delete the
    `<!-- and -->`

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-name/#post-491073)
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