Hi all,
Love this plugin. It sleek, simple, space saving and very efeective.
I did notice something in the latest version that may help others or
In simple-masonry-layout.php where the Font Awesome style is registered
Line 44: wp_register_style( ‘font-awesome’, (“http:////netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css”));
the link is invalid. This leads to no Font Awesome CSS being loaded and the result is squares beside Author, Date, Comment etc.
Of course if another theme/plugin loads Font Awesome than normally you dont notice the issue.
I changed the line to be
Line 44: wp_register_style( ‘font-awesome’, (“https://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css”));
and we were good to go.

Perhaps the plugin needs updating ?

Thanks
Steph