Missing required field "updated" in blogger

In last post we discussed about "How to Display Author Image in Google Search Results"
since you have made the whole procedure correctly but you might have got some errors.
As you check your blog hosted with Blogger for Google Authorship with Rich snippet testing tool mostly you get two common warning and error messages 'Warning: Missing required field "updated".' and 'Warning: Missing required hCard "author".

Don't worry, I've got the solution for it :-)
The whole Error is because of 'hfeed' and 'hentry'

Fixing The Error

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There are two methods for solving / fixing this problem.

1. Changing 'hfeed' and 'hentry'
2. Applying Updated tag to blogger

Changing 'hfeed' and 'hentry'

This is the most effective method [I tried it] for getting no error. It really worked for me.

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard › Select Blog › Click on Template › Proceed › Edit HTML

2. Search for 'hfeed' and 'hentry' 

3. Just rename one by one as 'h-feed' and 'h-entry' respectively. [You can also copy paste]

4. Save template and now check for authorship markup warnings and errors with Rich Snippet testing tool.

You'll get a smile on your face because no markup warnings and errors will be shown.

If still there are any problems then you can try second method.

Applying "Updated" tag to blogger template [alternative]

Now we move to second method which is slightly difficult from first one.

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard › Select Blog › Click on Template › Proceed › Edit HTML
2. Now press Ctrl+F to find the code timestamp-link   or  published   like below

3. Now care fully change it to the code below

<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='updated published' expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>

  4. Check it again and have a smile on your face !

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