Author Name Doesn't Show on External Page

No one with an idea? I know others have had this problem solved, I have tried everything I can think of, read every document or post even remotely concerning this.

Sorry I can’t help. But at least fetching posts works for you, even that doesn’t work for me: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/external-pages-stopped-working-after-updating-to-30

How did you do that? Do you have multisite enabled?

No I just made sure to include the

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

at the top.

Then I just did the loop stuff and it everything shows up…but the author name.

worked fine for me…with the semi-colon you don’t have in your examples

<?php the_author(); ?>

just tested it on my external page

Yeah I have the semi-colons, not sure why I pasted them like that. My bad. So it’s not that.