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Thanks Tom! That’s just about got it. The border was clashing with descenders in the title line, so I added some space above it. Also because the border can’t be spaced like type, some letter combinations were making the spacing jarring (my fault for having an author name that ends in ‘l’ 😅).

.wp-show-posts-separator {
    display: none;
}

.wp-show-posts-entry-title {
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

.wp-show-posts-byline {
    border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
    padding-right: 1px;
    margin-right: 4px;
}

Would it be a pain to change it so the author name is followed by a comma?

Author Name, September 1, 2020

That would clear up everything.

But if it’s not possible, I can certainly live with a few pixels of wonky spacing!

As below:

add_filter( 'wpsp_author_output', 'tu_wpsp_remove_author_link' );
function tu_wpsp_remove_author_link() {
    printf(
        '<span class="wp-show-posts-byline wp-show-posts-meta">
            <span class="wp-show-posts-author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">
                 <span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%1$s</span>
            </span>
        </span>',
        esc_html( get_the_author() )
    );
}

add_filter( 'wpsp_date_output', 'tu_wpsp_remove_date_link' );
function tu_wpsp_remove_date_link() {
    $time_string = '<time class="wp-show-posts-entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">%2$s</time>';

    if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {
        $time_string .= '<time class="wp-show-posts-updated" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">%4$s</time>';
    }

    $time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
        esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
        esc_html( get_the_date() ),
        esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
        esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
    );

    printf(
        '<span class="wp-show-posts-posted-on wp-show-posts-meta">%1$s</span>',
        $time_string
    );
}