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The author of a post can be displayed by using this Template Tag. This tag must be used within The Loop.
<?php the_author(); ?>
Displays the value in the user's Display name publicly as field.
<p>This post was written by <?php the_author(); ?></p>
This function takes no arguments. (The arguments have been deprecated.)
the_author,
the_author_description,
the_author_login,
the_author_firstname,
the_author_lastname,
the_author_nickname,
the_author_ID,
the_author_email,
the_author_url,
the_author_link,
the_author_icq,
the_author_aim,
the_author_yim,
the_author_msn,
the_author_posts,
the_author_posts_link,
list_authors,
wp_list_authors