Google no longer shows Author Information in Search Resuts

I’m hoping you may have answer for this google authorship question. I saw that authorship was ended last year and only today did I realize this. I guess they moved away from having the pictures next to the search results. Regardless, I saw they still are keeping the google authorship test tool up there and when I went and tested it today just to see, I noticed an error for my site, https://www.thetwelfthstep.com. It said:

hatom-feed
hatom-entry:
entry-title: Thought For The Day
entry-content: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” (C.S. Lewis) Peace, love, light, and joy, Andrew Arthur Dawson Share This Entry:PrintEmailFacebookTwitterGoogleMoreTumblrPin…
author:
fn: Andrew Arthur Dawson
person-name:
url:
https://thetwelfthstep.com/author/andrewarthurdawson/
bookmark:
name: Permalink to Thought For The Day
rel: bookmark
url: https://thetwelfthstep.com/2015/02/07/thought-for-the-day-72/
tags:
name: Thought For The Day
rel: tag
url: https://thetwelfthstep.com/category/thought-for-the-day/

Error: Missing required field “updated”.

I’m trying to figure out what the missing required field is all about? Do you know?

Hey andrew,

you get this error because your theme has no “updated” field that is required by Google to complete the syntax.

You have two options here: a) remove all syntax so that you don’t use it or b) ask your theme author to integrate the updated element, too (maybe schema.org).

I wrote a blogpost about this topic (but german language only, sorry).

Hope this helps anyway.

Unfortunately I’m not technical at all to know how to do the change and my theme is part of GoDaddy’s and they don’t seem to ever update it. Any idea on how to do a quick fix by a beginner like me? And what is the risk if I don’t change it at all?

Hey Andrew,
Unfortunately there is no “quick fix” as you have to dive into the code of your theme to fix this.