Add a delimiter between post title and author name

[nir-arad]

This issue is currently exhibited in this page
Post titles and author names are in Hebrew.

Expected behavior

There should be a between post title and author name.
A nice-to-have feature is a configurable delimiter, either as a selection (dash, colon, ...) or in free form.

Actual behavior

The author name is shown immediately after the post name, with no space.

Shortcode used and steps to reproduce the behavior

• Create a post
• Classify into a category
• Create a page
• Add shortcode:
  [catlist name="0002" author=yes pagination=no numberposts=500 orderby=title]

WP version, LCP plugin version (versions of other software if relevant, e.g. PHP)

PHP 7.3.15
WP 5.5.1
LCP 0.83.1

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[klemens-st]

I think we can safely add an automatic whitespace before all elements. It should be implemented in a dedicated function to keep things DRY and to make sure it's always added the same way.

If we prepend the whitespace before any user specified tags, it won't affect HTML and CSS customisations, so it's absolutely safe to implement. Browsers drop whitespace characters between block elements anyway.

I've seen many users trying to achieve a similar thing with CSS or a custom template but to make a simple shortcode usable out of the box, this feature should be implemented in the base plugin.