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WP_Navigation_Block_Renderer::get_inner_blocks_from_navigation_post( array $attributes ): WP_Block_List

Since
6.5.0
Source
wp-includes/blocks/navigation.php:322
Gets the inner blocks for the navigation block from the navigation post.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 6.5.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$attributesarray
The block attributes.

Return value

WP_Block_List
Returns the inner blocks for the navigation block.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_Navigation_Block_Renderer::get_inner_blocks_from_navigation_post() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Heavy

Reaches the database via get_post().

Scaling
Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions
13–40

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 46.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What it touches

  • querycontent queryget_post()called directly
  • hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()one call below WP_Navigation_Block_Renderer::get_inner_blocks_from_navigation_post()

Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize, option and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.

What one call costs · 2 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_Navigation_Block_Renderer::get_inner_blocks_from_navigation_post() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always13–14get_post()
isset($navigation_post)40get_post(), parse_blocks(), block_core_navigation_filter_out_empty_blocks(), serialize_blocks(), apply_block_hooks_to_content_from_post_object(), parse_blocks()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 46 instructions, 13–40 executed per call, 2 branches. The work does not change between versions.

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Uses · 6

Source code

	private static function get_inner_blocks_from_navigation_post( $attributes ) {		$navigation_post = get_post( $attributes['ref'] );		if ( ! isset( $navigation_post ) ) {			return new WP_Block_List( array(), $attributes );		} 		// Only published posts are valid. If this is changed then a corresponding change		// must also be implemented in `use-navigation-menu.js`.		if ( 'publish' === $navigation_post->post_status ) {			$parsed_blocks = parse_blocks( $navigation_post->post_content ); 			// 'parse_blocks' includes a null block with '\n\n' as the content when			// it encounters whitespace. This code strips it.			$blocks = block_core_navigation_filter_out_empty_blocks( $parsed_blocks ); 			// Re-serialize, and run Block Hooks algorithm to inject hooked blocks.			// TODO: See if we can move the apply_block_hooks_to_content_from_post_object() call			// before the parse_blocks() call further above, to avoid the extra serialization/parsing.			$markup = serialize_blocks( $blocks );			$markup = apply_block_hooks_to_content_from_post_object( $markup, $navigation_post );			$blocks = parse_blocks( $markup ); 			// TODO - this uses the full navigation block attributes for the			// context which could be refined.			return new WP_Block_List( $blocks, $attributes );		}	}

Changelog

Introduced in 6.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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