Title: Author label
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Author label

 *  Resolved [budcolby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budcolby/)
 * (@budcolby)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-label/)
 * The post on our blog do not show who the author is. I don’t know how to get it
   there, I have not found a place to turn it on, or how to change the author in
   the event of a guest author. is this a WordPress setting, or a theme setting.
   don’t know what to do.

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-label/#post-1020689)
 * 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](http://codex.wordpress.org/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?
 *  Thread Starter [budcolby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budcolby/)
 * (@budcolby)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-label/#post-1020699)
 * 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 &raquo;','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>
       					  &nbsp;<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/tag.gif" /><?php the_tags(__('Tags','emerald_stretch') . ':&nbsp;', ', ', '&nbsp;'); ?>
                   <?php _e('Posted&nbsp;in', 'emerald_stretch'); ?>:&nbsp;<?php the_category(', ') ?>
       					  &nbsp;<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(__('&laquo; Older Entries','emerald_stretch')) ?>
         			<li class="right"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;','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(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-label/#post-1020702)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [budcolby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budcolby/)
 * (@budcolby)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-label/#post-1020707)
 * Thank you so much! That worked

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [budcolby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budcolby/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-label/#post-1020707)
 * Status: resolved

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