How Can I Call Up The Author’s Name on a Post

Inside The Loop you can use the Template Tag the_author() to display or get_the_author() to return the same. For an introduction to outside the loop usage take a look at the Q&A’s at the thread How to get Author ID outside the loop on here.

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