Content Not Echoing

CMS & WordPress
1

I’m having trouble figuring out why some of the content here isn’t printing out. Everything I’m localizing prints out ok, but the_date() and the_author are drawing up blank.

I know these functions need to be called from within a loop but if it’s being called from a single page it is the same thing, correct?


        if(is_singular() && !is_front_page() ) {
		?>
        	<li id="postmeta" class="widget">
            	<h2><?php echo __('Information','semi-static'); ?></h2>
                <?php
				//add meta data, but for pages only
				if(is_page() ) {
				?>
                	<p><?php echo __('Page Created', 'semi-static');
					 the_date();
					 echo  __(' by ','semi-static');
					 the_author(); ?></p>
					<?php 
					//pages should have page menu
					wp_list_pages(); 
				}
2

Make sure you’re viewing the actual logic. I’ve lost count to the number of times I’ve made changes to some piece of WP code only to later realize that the conditions I activated involved code from somewhere else in the theme or whatever.