Title: Author names aren’t posting
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Author names aren’t posting

 *  Resolved [skirkster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skirkster/)
 * (@skirkster)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-names-arent-posting/)
 * Hello,
 * My blog has two authors for its posts, and I thought I was doing everything right
   to get their names to display, but no luck. Is there some piece of code we’re
   possibly missing? Link is here: [blog.noelmarie.com](http://blog.noelmarie.com/).
 * Thanks!

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-names-arent-posting/#post-1069584)
 * You need to look for `the_author` tag in the relevant theme template files and,
   if it’s not there, add it.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author)
 *  Thread Starter [skirkster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skirkster/)
 * (@skirkster)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-names-arent-posting/#post-1069649)
 * As far as I can tell (and I compared my theme to the WordPress Default for the
   PHP), they’re both exactly the same, in the Main Index Template. Here’s the code,
   any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
 *     ```
       <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
             <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
               <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
               <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author(); ?> --></small>
   
               <div class="entry">
                 <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
               </div><!-- end id="entryMIT" -->
   
               <p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
             </div><!-- end id="postMIT" -->
   
           <?php endwhile; ?>
   
           <div class="navigation">
             <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
             <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
           </div><!-- end id="navigationMIT" -->
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [skirkster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skirkster/)
 * (@skirkster)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-names-arent-posting/#post-1069651)
 * Sorry, just figured it out. Thanks for the help, though!

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Author names aren’t posting’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [author name](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author-name/)
 * [code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/code/)
 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [skirkster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skirkster/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-names-arent-posting/#post-1069651)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics