Title: Author field?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Author field?

 *  [crashtest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crashtest/)
 * (@crashtest)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-field/)
 * i don’t find a file’s author field adding a download, am i missing something?
 * Downloads often have an author that is not a wp user, how to show external authors
   names (possibly with their homepage link)?
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