Adjusting custom code to properly show author

Hi,

I am facing the problem that many others faced before. My author is displayed as: a href=”http://link to byline” rel=”tag”>name of author</a

As suggested before, I tried to replace the function with the_author but as I am a total beginner, I struggled and horribly failed! Could you tell me if this is the code I need to adjust? (located in template-tag.phps) (I am using the Theme ‘Match’, which basically has no support)

if ( ! function_exists( 'match_posted_on' ) ) :
/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
 */
function match_posted_on() {
	$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s">%2$s</time>';
	if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {
		$time_string .= '<time class="updated" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time>';
	}

	$time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
	);

	printf( __( '<span class="posted-on">Posted on %1$s</span><span class="byline"> by %2$s</span>', 'match' ),
		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" rel="bookmark">%2$s</a>',
			esc_url( get_permalink() ),
			$time_string
		),
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s">%2$s</a></span>',
			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
			esc_html( get_the_author() )
		)
	);	

}
endif;

and if possible what I need to change in there to get the result I am looking for?

Thanks in advance for the help!

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/byline/