Author names aren’t posting

You need to look for the_author tag in the relevant theme template files and, if it’s not there, add it.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_author

As far as I can tell (and I compared my theme to the WordPress Default for the PHP), they’re both exactly the same, in the Main Index Template. Here’s the code, any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

      <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
        <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
        <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author(); ?> --></small>

        <div class="entry">
          <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
        </div><!-- end id="entryMIT" -->

        <p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
      </div><!-- end id="postMIT" -->

    <?php endwhile; ?>

    <div class="navigation">
      <div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
      <div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
    </div><!-- end id="navigationMIT" -->

Sorry, just figured it out. Thanks for the help, though!