Title: Latest Post widget – Author link code displaying
Last modified: May 15, 2026

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# Latest Post widget – Author link code displaying

 *  [dcbuffalo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcbuffalo/)
 * (@dcbuffalo)
 * [8 hours, 6 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-post-widget-author-link-code-displaying/)
 * The author metadata link on the latest posts widget has an error that is forcing
   the back-end link to show, without turning it into a link. See here:
 * [https://snipboard.io/eA8G1O.jpg](https://snipboard.io/eA8G1O.jpg)
 * I have had to hide this element via CSS as it was revealing author usernames –
   VERY bad idea. So if you want to see it live, you’ll have to use the developer
   view, find it in the code below the date, and turn off the “display: none;” css.
   I took a quick look in the back-end code to see if I could figure out what the
   problem was, but I didn’t have any luck.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Flatest-post-widget-author-link-code-displaying%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 * Last reply from: [dcbuffalo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcbuffalo/)
 * Last activity: [8 hours, 6 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-post-widget-author-link-code-displaying/)
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