Title: Structured Data Errors: Published vs Updated Dates
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Structured Data Errors: Published vs Updated Dates

 *  [bigfatty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigfatty/)
 * (@bigfatty)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-errors-published-vs-updated-dates/)
 * I am using the Twenty Ten theme and have missing data errors in Google Webmaster
   Tools. I got the fix below in the functions.php file:
 *     ```
       function twentyten_posted_on() {
       	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s', 'twentyten' ),
       		'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
       		sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date updated">%3$s</span></a>',
       			get_permalink(),
       			esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
       			get_the_date()
       		),
       		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>, date modified: %4$s',
       			get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
       			sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentyten' ), get_the_author() ),
       			get_the_author(),
       			esc_attr( get_the_modified_date() )
       ```
   
 * It entails adding “updated” to class=”entry-date”. However, though this eliminates
   the “missing” errors in Google, Google actually displays the original published
   date, not the date I updated the article. Although I did get both the published
   and updated date to display properly on my blog by adding “date modified: %4$
   s'” and “esc_attr( get_the_modified_date() )” as shown above, Google still displays
   the published date.
 * Is there a way I can fix Google to show the actual updated date? Thanks for any
   help.

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## Tags

 * [published date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/published-date/)
 * [structured data errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/structured-data-errors/)
 * [twentyten theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/twentyten-theme/)
 * [updated date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updated-date/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/structured-data-errors-published-vs-updated-dates/)
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