oscarbugaric

Answer from the GeneratePress support:

OK, i think the plugin developer needs to take a look at the issue.

The Theme and GB uses core functions to return the author name which uses: get_the_author

And this snippet here uses the get_the_author_meta('display_name')

Both are functions that the plugin developer said should work.
And neither GP or GB interferes with those functions.
So unless another code is interfering with the result then there should be no reason it does not work.

Ask the developer to take a closer look, or ask them where is the submitted author stored, eg. in the post meta, as it may be easier to display that.

I forgot to mention, I am using GeneratePress, and this is what GP support said:

Hi there,

the Theme uses the core get_the_author function to return the author name and the archive link if it exists.
So can you ask the plugin developer what exactly needs to be done differently to display the actual author that their plugin is saving? as the Theme isn’t going to know that.