# How to add the author name?
**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-the-author-name/951
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [September 3, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-the-author-name/951 "2017-09-03T17:28:36Z")
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### Author:  [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-the-author-name/951/1 "2017-09-03T17:28:36Z")
I also want to add the author name to the posts.
What should I do for that?
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### Author:  [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-the-author-name/951/2 "2017-09-03T23:23:07Z")
should be pretty easy, just add front matter to the post - `author: Bob Smith` and then in the layout you can do `{{page.author}}` you could also test to see if it exists by doing an if:
`{% if page.author %}Written by: {{page.author}}{% endif %}`
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### Author:  [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-the-author-name/951/3 "2017-09-04T10:06:41Z")
Will this code work?
```auto
{% if page.author %}
{% include author/{{page.author}}.html %}
{% endif %}
```
If we have lots of authors and we want to include a file specific to the author name.
AND
If we add the `author: -name-`, then will it also show up in the RSS feed?
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### Author:  [@DavidDarnes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/DavidDarnes)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-the-author-name/951/4 "2017-09-05T08:53:38Z")
That should work. You could also do the following:
```auto
---
author: 'Author Name'
---
{% include author-bio.html name: page.author %}
```
Then you could deal with the logic inside the partial