Hello, can someone tell me why I can’t get the following to output anything?

{if author != “nobyline”}
By {author}
{/if}

is not part of the Conditional Global Variables
You can however use :

or

Finally :

Actually, as lon gas you are inside the exp:weblog tag you can use author_id to check.  For instance, I like to show an image if the author of a post is NOT me.  I use this code for that:

Username and Screenname work against the currently logged in user - not the author of the post, so would have an entirely different effect. =)

Hmmm I though the module would make it display the author of the entry.

So any Weblog Entries Single Variables can be used in a conditional ?
Then how will EE guess the difference between this with Global Conditional :

and this with Weblog Entries Single Variable :

To answer first post I’ll say that the value of screen_name is empty in the profile.
{author} would display the username but the screen_name can’t be verified.
:-\

username is the value of the person currently logged in, in both cases, to my knowledge.

Seems not

Thank you LisaJill, I was not aware of the ‘author_id’ being something i can check against.

strange you can’t check against ‘author’ though.