displaying post author in Blogum theme

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  makeitadoublefeature · Member · Aug 14, 2011 at 7:21 pm

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  Hi everyone – just starting up here and am excited to be a part of this community.

  I’ve read variants of my question in previous topics, but nothing that solves my specific issue: I’m setting up a multi-author blog in the Blogum theme, and want each post to display its author.

  Per this post on wordpress tips (http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/author-displayed-or-not/) the Blogum theme should display the author’s name in the post metadata, but I’m not seeing author name in WordPress’ welcome post on my blog, nor when I preview my first post.

  Will Blogum only start displaying each post’s author once I’ve set up a second user for this blog? Or is there something else that I’m missing? (NB that I can’t make any CSS/code changes, as I am on the most basic version of WordPress.com.)

  Thanks in advance for your help!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 14, 2011 at 8:23 pm

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  From looking at the demo site it does not look like Blogum displays the author. I’m not sure if it did originally and it was then taken out or what.

  If you want to stick with that theme, then my only suggestion would be to have your authors put a byline at the beginning of each of their posts.

  Alternately you can look at the list Panos has and use that as a guide for choosing another theme.

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 11:45 pm

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  Someone asked a question on the Spanish forums about the author being displayed on Blogum and behold, the author names appear!
  http://comaro.wordpress.com/

  Maybe they appear only if it’s a multiauthor blog? (Just a theory).

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 16, 2011 at 12:34 am

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  Your theory is correct. See here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/author-names-in-pink-touch-2?replies=2

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 16, 2011 at 1:18 am

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  Yay! But for the sake of clarity, I should have said “posts published by more than one author”. Merely having authors with zero posts will not cause the names to be displayed (as shown on the thread in Spanish).

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  makeitadoublefeature · Member · Aug 16, 2011 at 7:54 pm

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  Thanks, everyone. Looking forward to seeing this kick in once the second author posts. Until then, I’ve been using a cheat/workaround – just created a category for “Posted by: Author Name.” In Blogum it shows up right under the date of the post.