Title: Error: Missing required field "updated
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error: Missing required field "updated

 *  [idealpestcontrol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idealpestcontrol/)
 * (@idealpestcontrol)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-missing-required-field-updated-2/)
 * hi i am using frontier theme . i am trying to get authorship verification by 
   google and is having this error
 * Error: Missing required field “updated”.
    Error: Missing required hCard “author
 * i dont know how to solve this issue. i searched the web and found that i have
   to change the single page php. and change the php like this
    Fix Missing required
   field “updated” look for the code below on your WordPress theme’s single.php 
   file.
 * 001
    <span class=”post_date”><?php the_time(‘j F,Y’); ?></span> then add “date
   updated” attribute to it. Your code should look like
 * 001
    <span class=”post_date date updated”><?php the_time(‘j F,Y’); ?></span> 
   Fix Warning: Missing required hCard “author” and Missing required field “name(
   fn)” This will fix these 2 warnings. On your WordPress theme’s single.php file,
   look for
 * 001
    <span class=”theauthor”><?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span> or
 * 001
    <span class=”theauthor”><?php the_author(); ?></span> replace it with
 * 001
    <span class=”vcard author”> 002 <span class=”fn”><?php the_author_posts_link();?
   ></span> 003 </span> or
 * 001
    <span class=”vcard author”> 002 <span class=”fn”><?php the_author(); ?></
   span> 003 </span> i searched my theme php but dont find these lines . any one
   can help

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-missing-required-field-updated-2/#post-4445510)
 * Please post on that theme’s own forum:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/theme/frontier](http://wordpress.org/support/theme/frontier)
 *  Thread Starter [idealpestcontrol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idealpestcontrol/)
 * (@idealpestcontrol)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-missing-required-field-updated-2/#post-4445540)
 * thanks i did it

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