For the functions.php file in your theme:

function the_title_trim($title) {

	$title = attribute_escape($title);

	$findthese = array(
		'#Protected:#',
		'#Private:#'
	);

	$replacewith = array(
		'', // What to replace "Protected:" with
		'' // What to replace "Private:" with
	);

	$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);
	return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'the_title_trim');

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In case you want to have <img> in your content but not have them get "Auto P'd" like WordPress likes to do.

example of problem:

blah blah blah

<img src="monkey.jpg">

blah blah blah

turns into:

<p>blah blah blah</p>

<p><img src="monkey.jpg"></p>

<p>blah blah blah</p>

We can fix it with this:

function filter_ptags_on_images($content){
   return preg_replace('/<p>\s*(<a .*>)?\s*(<img .* \/>)\s*(<\/a>)?\s*<\/p>/iU', '\1\2\3', $content);
}

add_filter('the_content', 'filter_ptags_on_images');

For your functions.php file, or, see Reference URL for a plugin. With this in place, we get:

<p>blah blah blah</p>

<img src="monkey.jpg">

<p>blah blah blah</p>

... meaning things like floating the images will be much easier.

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Kind of pointless to include this unless you actually use Windows Live Writer to write your posts. Put this in the theme's functions.php file:

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link');

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You can remove or change the <ul> container that you get by default with wp_nav_menu (codex) through parameters, but you can't remove the <li> elements that wrap each menu item. This is how you can actually remove them:

$menuParameters = array(
  'container'       => false,
  'echo'            => false,
  'items_wrap'      => '%3$s',
  'depth'           => 0,
);

echo strip_tags(wp_nav_menu( $menuParameters ), '<a>' );

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add_filter( 'use_default_gallery_style', '__return_false' );

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You might want open registration on your WordPress site so that (for one small example) people can log in and leave comments on things without needing to type their name/url/email every time. But these users probably don't need to see the whole top admin bar as there likely isn't much use in it for them. Although do be sure to provide a link to edit their profile and log out.

This would be for your functions.php file or functionality plugin:

add_action('set_current_user', 'cc_hide_admin_bar');
function cc_hide_admin_bar() {
  if (!current_user_can('edit_posts')) {
    show_admin_bar(false);
  }
}

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Technique #1

This function is useful when you need to display content, excerpt, custom fields, or anything related to the post beyond it's link and title. If you just need a list of linked titles, see the next technique. Put the following function in functions.php

function recent_posts($no_posts = 10, $excerpts = true) {

   global $wpdb;

   $request = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type='post' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $no_posts";

   $posts = $wpdb->get_results($request);

   if($posts) {

               foreach ($posts as $posts) {
                       $post_title = stripslashes($posts->post_title);
                       $permalink = get_permalink($posts->ID);

                       $output .= '<li><h2><a href="' . $permalink . '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: ' . htmlspecialchars($post_title, ENT_COMPAT) . '">' . htmlspecialchars($post_title) . '</a></h2>';

                       if($excerpts) {
                               $output.= '<br />' . stripslashes($posts->post_excerpt);
                       }

                       $output .= '</li>';
               }

       } else {
               $output .= '<li>No posts found</li>';
       }

   echo $output;
}

Usage

After you've made the function. Put the following in the sidebar or wherever you like the recent posts to list..

<?php recent_posts(); ?>

You can give it 2 arguments, the first is the number of posts and the second is whether or not you want to display the excerpts. so recent_posts(2, false) will display the 2 most recent post titles.

Technique #2

<?php wp_get_archives( array(

    'type'            => 'postbypost',   // or daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
    'limit'           => 10,   // maximum number shown
    'format'          => 'html',   // or select (dropdown), link, or custom (then need to also pass before and after params for custom tags
    'show_post_count' => false,    // show number of posts per link
    'echo'            => 1     // display results or return array

) ); ?> 

Technique #3

More succinct version of #1, which also includes a more standardized query string.

<?php
   $recentposts = get_posts('numberposts=12&category=4');
   foreach ($recentposts as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post); ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

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