Title: Identities using the_author function
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Identities using the_author function

 *  [dmarino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmarino/)
 * (@dmarino)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/identities-using-the_author-function/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m modofying the fspring theme.
 * For applying a diferent style for the author of the comment, it uses this code:
   `
   if(the_author('', false) == get_comment_author()) echo "<div class='commenttext-
   admin'>"; else echo "<div class='commenttext'>";  The problem is that users can
   leave a comment using the nickname of the author, so, it’s not really useful.
 * What I should add to the code for verifying that no one uses a registered nickname?
 * thanks in advance 🙂

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