Template Tags in WordPress — a practical guide to WordPress template tags with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.
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Short description
Template tags print or return common post/site data. Prefer escaped variants when returning HTML.
Common tags
the_title();
the_permalink();
the_excerpt();
the_post_thumbnail('large');
echo esc_html(get_the_date());