It is a theme setting.
For instance, if you look in the Default theme’s index.php you’ll see this line of code in The_Loop:
<!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->
If you remove the comments (that would be the <!-- and --> then it would display “by authorName” above the post.
You can add the same logic to your own themes.
Does that help?
I am using The Theme “emerald Stretch” and this is the “main index template.php” am I blind? I don’t see anything that looks like that? I don’t know were to input that line.
<?php get_header(); ?>
<!-- CONTENT -->
<div id="content-wrapper">
<div id="content">
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><a>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e('Permanent Link to ','emerald_stretch'); ?><?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
<?php the_excerpt(__('Read the rest of this post »','emerald_stretch')); ?>
<p id="postmeta">
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/calendar.gif" /><a>/<?php the_time('Y') ?>/<?php the_time('m') ?>/" title="<?php _e('View all posts for the month of','emerald_stretch'); ?> <?php the_time(__('F, Y','emerald_stretch')) ?>"><?php the_time(__('F j, Y','emerald_stretch')) ?></a>
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/tag.gif" /><?php the_tags(__('Tags','emerald_stretch') . ': ', ', ', ' '); ?>
<?php _e('Posted in', 'emerald_stretch'); ?>: <?php the_category(', ') ?>
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/comments.gif" /><?php comments_popup_link(__('No Comments','emerald_stretch'), __('One Comment','emerald_stretch'), __('% Comments','emerald_stretch'), '', __('Comments Closed', 'emerald_stretch')); ?>
<span class="editlink"><?php edit_post_link(__('Edit','emerald_stretch'),'',''); ?></span>
</p>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<ul class="postnav">
<li class="left"><?php next_posts_link(__('« Older Entries','emerald_stretch')) ?>
<li class="right"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries »','emerald_stretch')) ?>
<?php else : ?>
<h1><?php _e('Oops! This blog is brand new','emerald_stretch'); ?></h1>
<p><?php _e('No posts were found.','emerald_stretch'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<!-- /CONTENT -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Well, if your theme doesn’t currently show the author then you probably won’t see the code, right? 😉 I showed you what’s in the Default theme so you could see where it is (if you were to go look) to get a feel for where you might add it to your own.
That being said… perhaps a nice starting point would be to put it in that meta section?
Find:
<p id="postmeta">
and add a line after that to contain:
<?php the_author() ?>
And see what you get.
Thank you so much! That worked
