Author isn't displayed on the post

[moezubair]

Hey,

I see that there is author field in the post object for blog, however it does not get displayed and I don't see any reference to it in the templates

export interface Post {
  /** A unique ID number that identifies a post. */
  id: string;

  /** A post’s unique slug – part of the post’s URL based on its name, i.e. a post called “My Sample Page” has a slug “my-sample-page”. */
  slug: string;

  /**  */
  permalink: string;

  /**  */
  publishDate: Date;
  /**  */
  updateDate?: Date;

  /**  */
  title: string;
  /** Optional summary of post content. */
  excerpt?: string;
  /**  */
  image?: ImageMetadata | string;

  /**  */
  category?: string;
  /**  */
  tags?: Array<string>;
  /**  */
  author?: string;

  /**  */
  metadata?: MetaData;

  /**  */
  draft?: boolean;

  /**  */
  Content?: AstroComponentFactory;
  content?: string;

  /**  */
  readingTime?: number;
}

[moonbe77]

Hey, check the file ListItem.astro, if you add console.log to log the post you can see that the author prop is there but the author is undefined.

const { post } = Astro.props;
console.log(post);

Add an author prop to the frontmatter of any of the posts and you will see it in the logs.

publishDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
title: Useful tools and resources to create a professional website
...
author: Author Name
...
tags:
  - front-end
  - tools
  - resources

you can render the author adding something like this to the html in the ListItem.astro file

<div>Author: {post.author}</div>