Better footnote citations and text citations for biblatex-apa 7.7

betterAPAfootcites.tex

% This code snippet patches bugs with \footcite(s) and \textcite(s) in biblatex-apa 7.7 <https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-apa>
% The biblatex-apa package is (c) 2018 Philip Kime, licensed under LPPL v1.3 <http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt>
% The default behaviour of \footcite is more akin to \cite than \textcite, and it looks jarring when the latter is also used.
% Additionally, biblatex-apa prints extraneous spaces, commas or semi-colons when using \textcites and \footcites.
% Just paste the following code in your preamble:
\DeclareAutoCiteCommand{footnote}[f]{\footcite}{\footcites}% allows the use of [autocite=footnote] (cf. biblatex doc 3.1.1)
\DeclareCiteCommand{\footcite}[\mkbibfootnote]% redefines \footcite to use textcite (i.e. year & postnote in parentheses)
	{\renewcommand{\compcitedelim}{}% removes extraneous comma
	\bibsentence\usebibmacro{cite:init}\usebibmacro{prenote}}
	{\usebibmacro{citeindex}\usebibmacro{textcite}}{}
	{\usebibmacro{textcite:postnote}\usebibmacro{cite:post}}
\DeclareMultiCiteCommand{\textcites}{\textcite}{}% fix a bug with \textcites (extraneous space in multicite)