Formatting issue with underscores theme

I’m trying to get this to display properly within the underscores theme. It’s been mentioned in previous posts you need to add the_author function in order for bylines to display properly.

For underscores, this means altering the function in template-tags.php. PHP is difficult for me and I’m having a hard time implementing this. What do I need to change this to in order to make bylines display properly?

$byline = sprintf(
	esc_html_x( 'by %s', 'post author', 'fff' ),
	'<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="' . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ) . '">' . esc_html( get_the_author() ) . '</a></span>'
	);

Any help here is appreciated.

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