Remove author name but keep avatar, publish date and categories

Hi, I don’t see any / separator for the post meta info on a desktop version of the site. I do see that the spacing on the content for the post meta is rather scrunched up on mobile and not entirely readable.

How are you wanting the content to display exactly on mobile for the post meta?

Hi @jarretc, thank you for your answer,

Indeed, there are no / separators on desktop version, as information is displayed on separate lines.
On mobile, I’d like it to show up as seen on the Twenty-Sixteen demo site, just without the author name:
https://twentysixteendemo.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/image-post-format/

There’s an extra / at the end of the line on this demo site though, for some reason. It doesn’t show up on my site (I’ve disabled the piece of code for you to see how it should look).

For instance, on mobile, on just one line, there should be:
<round avatar image> PublishDate / Category1, Category2

Ok, for your modified version of the code, you can either remove a span tag such as

if ( 'post' === get_post_type() ) {
			$author_avatar_size = apply_filters( 'twentysixteen_author_avatar_size', 49 );
			printf(
				'<span class="author vcard">%1$s</span>',
			get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), $author_avatar_size ) //,
//			_x( 'Author', 'Used before post author name.', 'twentysixteen' ),
//			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
//			get_the_author()
			);
		}

Or you can add another <span in there such as

if ( 'post' === get_post_type() ) {
			$author_avatar_size = apply_filters( 'twentysixteen_author_avatar_size', 49 );
			printf(
				'<span class="byline"><span class="author vcard">%1$s</span></span>',
			get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), $author_avatar_size ) //,
//			_x( 'Author', 'Used before post author name.', 'twentysixteen' ),
//			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
//			get_the_author()
			);
		}

Either way you choose to do it, I think you’ll need to then use CSS to hide the / such as

.entry-footer span:first-child:after {
	content: "";
}

I had indeed removed one too many </span> tags in my “modified version”.
Keeping the byline class, and removing commented lines for clarity, the code now looks like this, like your second suggestion:

if ( 'post' === get_post_type() ) {
	$author_avatar_size = apply_filters( 'twentysixteen_author_avatar_size', 49 );
	printf(
		'<span class="byline"><span class="author vcard">%1$s</span></span>',
		get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), $author_avatar_size )
	);
}

And the CSS bit was indeed necessary, to remove the first / separator.

Thanks a lot, problem solved!