Title: hatom-feed error using structured data testing tool
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# hatom-feed error using structured data testing tool

 *  [shahnaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shahnaz/)
 * (@shahnaz)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/)
 * when i check structured data testing tool, for my site
    [http://www.recipesaresimple.com](http://www.recipesaresimple.com)
   I see that authorship is verified owever i see the following errors below
 * hatom-feed
    hatom-entry: entry-title: Delicious Recipes bookmark: name: Delicious
   Recipes rel: bookmark url: [http://www.recipesaresimple.com/](http://www.recipesaresimple.com/)
   Error: Missing required field “updated”. Error: Missing required hCard “author”.
 * How do i fix this?

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 *  [Fivera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fivera/)
 * (@fivera)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073437)
 * Hi, I’ve solved all my problems and errors using [this method](http://fivera.net/hatom-feed-hatom-entry-error-wordpress-solution/)
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073438)
 * **[@fivera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fivera/)** – please make sure
   that you are helping out here and not using these forums to post links to your
   site –
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Helping_Out](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Helping_Out)
 *  [Fivera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fivera/)
 * (@fivera)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073439)
 * Hi, i am more than sure that i am helping as i was reading all those topics in
   search for the solution.
    I just made a decision to write a tutorial about it
   and share it, correct me if i am wrong. Cheers.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073440)
 * When you post the same, link only, post in multiple places – some of which are
   quite old, that starts to look pretty iffy :).
 * The other potential problem is that your tutorial instructs people to modify 
   theme files – and then those changes will be overwritten when the theme is updated–
   which isn’t so great. Those kinds of changes should generally be made in a Child
   Theme – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
 *  [Fivera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fivera/)
 * (@fivera)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073441)
 * [@wpyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) I get what you are saying.
   I’ll try to be more concise with the explanation in the future. I am more than
   active on [http://sr.forums.wordpress.org/profile/fivera](http://sr.forums.wordpress.org/profile/fivera)
   in helping Serbian people with WordPress problems in my own language. Here i 
   try to use my website to answer some of the issues that i had to overcome myself.
   that’s all.
    Thanks for your time. 😀
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073443)
 * No worries – and help is certainly appreciated :). Just try to keep help on the
   forums so it doesn’t look like someone spamming links to their site – we get 
   an awful lot of that which is not so well-intentioned.
 *  Thread Starter [shahnaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shahnaz/)
 * (@shahnaz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073476)
 * I am still facing the same trouble:
    I read through the above links but do not
   understand how to find the correct place to implement any code. Can some one 
   help url: [http://www.recipesaresimple.com/](http://www.recipesaresimple.com/)
   Error: Missing required field “updated”. Error: Missing required hCard “author”.
 * How do i fix this?
 *  Thread Starter [shahnaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shahnaz/)
 * (@shahnaz)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073477)
 * I am still facing the same trouble:
    I read through the above links but do not
   understand how to find the correct place to implement any code. Can some one 
   help url: [http://www.recipesaresimple.com/](http://www.recipesaresimple.com/)
   Error: Missing required field “updated”. Error: Missing required hCard “author”.
 * How do i fix this?
 *  [aizaku](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aizaku/)
 * (@aizaku)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073487)
 * I have the same issue
    Error: Missing required field “updated”. Error: Missing
   required hCard “author”.
 * I use optimize press for my theme. I tried editing single.php with
 * <span class=”vcard author”><span class=”fn”><?php the_author(); ?></span></span
   ><span class=”post_date date updated”><?php the_time(‘j F,Y’); ?></span>
 * but no luck.
 * can somebody please help?
 * Thanks!
 *  [Chrissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paperkawaii/)
 * (@paperkawaii)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073490)
 * Hi everyone, maybe this can be of help, after a few days of trying to fix this
   same problem, which was about 10 of these on all of my posts:
 * Error: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
    Error: Missing required
   field “entry-title”. Error: Missing required field “updated”. Error: Missing 
   required hCard “author”.
 * Just under the categories. So this was after the information was actually working
   and being received.
 * This was being caused by the class “hentry” being added to a list of latest posts.
   
   I removed this code:
 * `<?php post_class(); ?>`
 * from the plugin. The errors have now gone.
 * Also a lot of the solutions on the websites linked to do not mention the you 
   need this structure:
 *     ```
       <body>
        <div id="wrap">
         <div class="hfeed" id="content">
          ...
          <div class="hentry entry" id="post-60">
       ```
   
 * the important bits are the hfeed and hentry.
 * More info: [microformats.org/wiki/hatom-examples](http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom-examples#Transformation_1)
 * I didn’t have a ‘hfeed’ as it had autocorrected it to “heed” -_-
 * Hope that was useful.
 * Best wishes
 *  [fashion2012](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fashion2012/)
 * (@fashion2012)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hatom-feed-error-using-structured-data-testing-tool/#post-4073491)
 * I ‘ve tried hard but couldn’t resolve this issue on [http://mytop100songshut.com/summer-calvin-harris/](http://mytop100songshut.com/summer-calvin-harris/)
   My Google rich snippet testing tool shows only 1 item of hatom-feed.

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