Missing required field “updated” – Google Webmaster Tools

Hi. Vantage unfortunately doesn’t have this field built in at the moment. All our themes are a work in progress, I’m sure we’ll see this added in the future. In the mean time you might consider one of the WordPress Google Publisher plugins to augment your site:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=google+publisher
http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=google+authorship&sort=

Super, glad you managed to resolve that. Please don’t forget to place that file in it’s folder structure in a child theme.

Hi Brent

Give this a child theme a try, it should resolve this for you:

https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vantage-child1.zip

For anyone already running a child theme, the functions.php and style.css additions to the child theme are below:

<?php 

if ( ! function_exists( 'vantage_posted_on' ) ) :
/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
 *
 * @since vantage 1.0
 */
function vantage_posted_on() {
	$posted_on_parts = array(
		'on' => __(‘Posted on <a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark" rel="nofollow"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a><time class="updated" datetime="' . esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ) . '">‘ . esc_html( get_the_modified_date() ) . ‘</time></span>‘, ‘vantage’),
		‘by’ => __( ‘<span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%5$s" title="%6$s" rel="author" rel="nofollow">%7$s</a></span></span>‘, ‘vantage’ ),
	);
	$posted_on_parts = apply_filters(‘vantage_post_on_parts’, $posted_on_parts);


	$posted_on = sprintf( implode(‘ ‘, $posted_on_parts),
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_date( ‘c’ ) ),
		apply_filters(‘vantage_post_on_date’, esc_html( get_the_date() )),
		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( ‘View all posts by %s’, ‘vantage’ ), get_the_author() ) ),
		get_the_author()
	);
	echo apply_filters(‘vantage_posted_on’, $posted_on);
}
endif;

One small change I added to the style.css in the child theme – you could also add to Appearance >Custom CSS is:

/*
 Theme Name:   Vantage Child
 Author:       SiteOrgin
 Template:     vantage
 Version:      1.0
*/

@import url(“../vantage/style.css”);

.updated { display: none; }

For sure. Glad we could help out here.

That’s correct. I’ve resolved it in:

http://siteorigin.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vantage-child1.zip

Just keep in mind you’ll need to redo your Appearance > Customize settings after activating the child theme so first open your Customizer in the parent theme, keep that in one tab, then install from Appearance > Themes > Add New: Upload in another tab. That way you can manually copy your settings over.

Can you perhaps elaborate on that?

When activating a child theme you do need to re-do your Customizer and Menu settings. What I usually do is open the Customizer on one tab and then activate the child theme in another. That way I can manually copy the parent theme Customizer settings to the child theme.