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[Tyssen]

Is there a way to output a nicely formatted author name using just the page's author without creating an additional author field attached to a template?

At the moment I'm doing:

$author = $page->createdUser;
echo $author->name;

but that just outputs admin when I'd like it to output Site Admin. But usernames can't contain spaces and there's no screen name field.

So do I need to create a field for the news template for author? Or is there some other workaround?

[owzim]

I had the same question last year =)

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/3044-why-is-there-no-user-title/

[Tyssen]

Excellent, thanks