Title: Adding author to theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding author to theme

 *  Resolved [Kenya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bijee/)
 * (@bijee)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/)
 * Is there a way to display the author on the main home page besides using the 
   author box?

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 *  [Styled Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gejay/)
 * (@gejay)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916179)
 * Not quite sure I understand what you want to do?
 *  Thread Starter [Kenya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bijee/)
 * (@bijee)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916244)
 * I am talking about on the home page, where the post exceprts are is there a way
   to have the author of the post listed like under the date or title?
 *  [Styled Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gejay/)
 * (@gejay)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916257)
 * Thanks for the clarification…unfortunately, this theme wasn’t coded to show that
   on the blog home page (where post summaries are displayed. However, it does show
   when the full post (article) is viewed.
 * You could add the author (and/or other meta info) to the summary, but this would
   require some coding to be done.
 *  Thread Starter [Kenya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bijee/)
 * (@bijee)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916259)
 * ok. thank you. I guess it is not that big of a deal since I rally like the rest
   of hte formatting of this theme. cnat have everything I guess.
 * Feel free to offer insight on doing it with coding if you have any.
 *  [Styled Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gejay/)
 * (@gejay)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916261)
 * You’re welcome… but to give insight on coding it in, it’s actually not that easy
   and would require some coding effort. For this theme, I wanted to keep the blog
   summaries with the least amount of information to give it a cleaner front-end.
 *  Thread Starter [Kenya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bijee/)
 * (@bijee)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916264)
 * ok. thanks again.

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author-to-theme-1/#post-4916264)
 * Status: resolved