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_wp_add_additional_image_sizes()

Since
5.3.0
Source
wp-includes/media.php:5680
Adds additional default image sub-sizes.

Description

These sizes are meant to enhance the way WordPress displays images on the front-end on larger, high-density devices. They make it possible to generate more suitable srcset and sizes attributes when the users upload large images.

The sizes can be changed or removed by themes and plugins but that is not recommended.
The size "names" reflect the image dimensions, so changing the sizes would be quite misleading.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 5.3.0
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.

Performance profile

How much work a call to _wp_add_additional_image_sizes() 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
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

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

Instructions
11

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 11.

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 one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always11add_image_size(), add_image_size()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 11 instructions, 11 executed per call, 0 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 · 1

Source code

function _wp_add_additional_image_sizes() {	// 2x medium_large size.	add_image_size( '1536x1536', 1536, 1536 );	// 2x large size.	add_image_size( '2048x2048', 2048, 2048 );}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.3.0. 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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