Change Post Entry-Meta Layout & Display Name

Hello,

I’ve been trying to disable the default entry meta displayed at the bottom of posts in Espied and have it displayed instead beneath the post title. So far my solution has been to write out the following code in the content.php file inside the “entry-content” div:

<?php echo “Posted on”?>
<?php espied_entry_date(); ?>
<?php echo “by” ?>
<?php the_author_posts_link() ?>

I then style this with CSS and remove the call to the function espied_entry_meta() in the footer. Is this not a good way to be changing the layout of the meta information for posts, and if not, can anyone suggest a better alternative?

My last question is the posts are still displaying my username instead of first/last name. I’ve seen mention online of a “Display Name Publicly As” option in the user profile underneath the “Nickname” field, but I do not have a dropdown box titled this.

Thanks,