add_utility_page( string $page_title, string $menu_title, string $capability, string $menu_slug, callable $callback = '', string $icon_url = '' ): string
- Since
- 2.7.0
- Source
wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php:1471
Description
This function takes a capability which will be used to determine whether or not a page is included in the menu.
The function which is hooked in to handle the output of the page must check that the user has the required capability as well.
Compatibility
Deprecated in WordPress 4.5.0. Use add_menu_page()
- WordPress
- since 2.7.0
- 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
$page_titlestring- The text to be displayed in the title tags of the page when the menu is selected.
$capabilitystring- The capability required for this menu to be displayed to the user.
$callbackcallableoptional- The function to be called to output the content for this page.Default:
'' $icon_urlstringoptional- The URL to the icon to be used for this menu.Default:
''
Return value
string- The resulting page's hook_suffix.
Performance profile
How much work a call to add_utility_page() 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
- Scaling
- Constant
- Instructions
- 23
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 23.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
do_action()one call below add_utility_page()
Further down the call graph this can also reach option, query, cache, serialize 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 · 1 distinct outcome
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost add_utility_page() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 23 | _deprecated_function(), add_menu_page() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 23 instructions, 23 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 · 2
- _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
- add_menu_page()Adds a top-level menu page.
Source code
function add_utility_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $callback = '', $icon_url = '') { _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '4.5.0', 'add_menu_page()' ); global $_wp_last_utility_menu; $_wp_last_utility_menu++; return add_menu_page($page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $callback, $icon_url, $_wp_last_utility_menu);}Changelog
Introduced in 2.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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