title: Wordpress the author function waterfall page
body: <p>I am working on a custom blog roll for my website but cannot for the life of me figure out how to print out the author. Here is what I have so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="blog_roll"&gt;
  &lt;?
    $args = array('tag__not_in' =&gt; '5');
    $posts = get_posts($args);
    foreach($posts as $post) {
  ?&gt;
      &lt;div class="waterfall"&gt; 
          &lt;div id="waterfall_thumb"&gt;
              &lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink(); ?&gt;"&gt;
                  &lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?&gt;
              &lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div id="waterfall_title"&gt;
              &lt;a href="&lt;?php the_permalink(); ?&gt;"&gt;
                  &lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;
              &lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div id="waterfall_author"&gt;
              by:&lt;?php the_author();?&gt;on &lt;?php the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;  
          &lt;div id="waterfall_exc"&gt;
              &lt;?php echo apply_filters( 'the_content', $post-&gt;post_excerpt ); ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;? } ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>