Un-selected categories appearing in blog when using the masonry content elements

Hi!

I am having an issue of un-selected categories being populated on the blog page using the masonry content elements function. I added the code below in the Enfold functions.php file and had no success even after refreshing the cache. Can someone please help me resolve this issue?

// pipe
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'ava_custom_script' );
function ava_custom_script() {
	?>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		(function($){
			function b() {
				$('.av-sort-by-term').find('.text-sep').empty().text('|');
			}

			b();
		})(jQuery);
	</script>
	<?php
}

Thank you for your time.