Title: Automatic Tagging
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Automatic Tagging

 *  [otchster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otchster/)
 * (@otchster)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-tagging/)
 * Can someone please advise me on how I can make wordpress tag the blog with the
   authors name?
 * I have three authors on my site, and they have to manually tag their posts within
   their writings..
 * [http://www.otchster.com/wordpress](http://www.otchster.com/wordpress) is my 
   wordpress
 * thanks for all input =)

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 *  [shoryuken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shoryuken/)
 * (@shoryuken)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-tagging/#post-376151)
 * I suppose you want to add the authors name to head of the post, e.g. behind the
   date. Therefore you need to alter your template code a bit. Browse to Presentation-
   > Template Editor -> Main Index Template
 * Now look for something like
    <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> It should be somewhere
   at the top. Just add the following piece of code by <?php the_author() ?>
 * So it would look something like
    …<?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> by <?php the_author()?
   >…
 * Hit Update File.
 * Note!
    If you’re unfamiliar with editing the template files then make a backup
   of the your templates folder first. Also you need to change the chmod (eg 777)
   to be able to alter your template.
 *  Thread Starter [otchster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otchster/)
 * (@otchster)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-tagging/#post-376251)
 * thanks a lot shoryuken =)

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## Tags

 * [auto](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/auto/)
 * [automatic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic/)
 * [tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tag/)
 * [tagging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tagging/)

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-tagging/#post-376251)
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