Newbie : getting author name in loop on home page

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Hi there, I’m totally new at Kirby, used to work with Wordpress, I’m struggling to get the author name in the for each loop on the home page of my blog. Any idea ?

My folder structure looks like this : https://infinit.io/_/6WpWwVt

What I do so far is :

<?php $author = $pages->find('authors')->children() ?>

and then <?php echo $author->name() ?>

I’m confused bc <?php echo $author ?> gives me authors/john-doe
I have put the name: john-doe in author.txt but I get nothing with <?php echo $author->name() ?>

Thanks!

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I’m not quite sure what you want to achieve? Do you want to list all author names in $author? If so (assuming that the title field contains the name of the author):

<?php

$authors = page('authors')->children();
foreach($authors as $author) {
  echo $author->title();  //or whatever field contains the author's name
}
?>
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