Title: Adding Author
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding Author

 *  Resolved [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * (@tracyfh)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author/)
 * How do I add the author here:
 *  echo ‘<span class=”postdate serif”>’.date(“F j, Y”,strtotime($row[‘post_date’])).’
   by
 * THANKS!!!
 * -T

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author/#post-1435150)
 * `<?php the_author(); ?>`
 * or
 * `<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>` if you want it to link to their posts
 *  Thread Starter [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * (@tracyfh)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author/#post-1435163)
 * thanks, but it didn’t work. It only says the word ‘by’ now.
 * This is what I tried:
 *  echo ‘<span class=”postdate serif”>’.date(“F j, Y”,strtotime($row[‘post_date’])).’
   by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>’;
 * Any more suggestions???

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 * Last reply from: [tracyfh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tracyfh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-author/#post-1435163)
 * Status: resolved

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