Title: Adding author not working….
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding author not working….

 *  Resolved [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * (@tracyfh)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-not-working/)
 * This is what I tried but it only says the word ‘by’ now.
 * echo ‘<span class=”postdate serif”>’.date(“F j, Y”,strtotime($row[‘post_date’])).’
   by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>’;
 * THANKS!!

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 *  [peterwongpp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterwongpp/)
 * (@peterwongpp)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-not-working/#post-1439056)
 * Please change to
 *     ```
       echo '<span class="postdate serif">'.date("F j, Y",strtotime($row['post_date'])).'by '; the_author_posts_link(); echo '</span>';
       ```
   
 * and try again.
 *  Thread Starter [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * (@tracyfh)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-not-working/#post-1439169)
 * Oh, I was so helpful.
 * It still just shows the word ‘by’. No author.
 *  Thread Starter [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * (@tracyfh)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-not-working/#post-1439178)
 * I meant, I was so HOPEFUL
 * It still just shows the word ‘by’. No author. And this is what I have no.
 * echo ‘<span class=”postdate serif”>’.date(“F j, Y”,strtotime($row[‘post_date’])).’
   by ‘; the_author_posts_link(); echo ‘</span>’;

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 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [eco](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/eco/)

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 * Last reply from: [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-not-working/#post-1439178)
 * Status: resolved

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