Title: the_author() question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# the_author() question

 *  [jor133d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jor133d/)
 * (@jor133d)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author-question/)
 * I’m wondering if there is a way to call the author of the post as their username
   separately from the way the author is publicly displayed?
 * I have an if statement where I would like the call the post authors username 
   but in the actual post I want to display the author as a Full Name.
 * Is this possible?

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 *  [Michelle Langston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chellycat/)
 * (@chellycat)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author-question/#post-1386289)
 * Could you reword your question? It’s a bit unclear what you want to do.
 * Are you trying to say:
 * On the front page you want to show the author’s username, but on the actual post
   page you want to show their Full Name?
 * You can use the_author_meta();
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michelle Langston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chellycat/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_author-question/#post-1386289)
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