[Plugin: Protected Post Personalizer] After upgrade to 3.4 unable to unprotect the posts

I found another way to remove the word Protected from the beginning of the post name.
Credits don’t go to me, I just found the work from someone else (can’t find the data right now, to provide credits to the one who owns it, sorry).
It’s less elegant than the PPP plugin, but at least provides a workaround for now.

Deactivate the plugin.
Insert in the below code in your theme’s function.php file (not the core file):

function the_title_trim($title) {
	// Might aswell make use of this function to escape attributes
	$title = attribute_escape($title);
	// What to find in the title
	$findthese = array(
		'#Protected:#', // # is just the delimeter
		'#Private:#'
	);
	// What to replace it with
	$replacewith = array(
		'', // What to replace protected with
		'' // What to replace private with
	);
	// Items replace by array key
	$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);
	return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'the_title_trim');

If I have some more time I will try to fix the plugin if the original creator should not be supporting it any longer.