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block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks( object $classic_nav_menu ): array

Since
6.2.0
Source
wp-includes/blocks/navigation.php:1879
Converts a classic navigation to blocks.

Compatibility

Deprecated in WordPress 6.3.0. Use WP_Navigation_Fallback::get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks() instead.

WordPress
since 6.2.0
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

$classic_nav_menuobject
WP_Term The classic navigation object to convert.

Return value

array
the normalized parsed blocks.

Performance profile

How much work a call to block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks() 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_posts().

Scaling
Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions
36–39

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 48.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
1

1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.

What it touches

  • hookthird-party callbacksdo_action()one call below block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks()
  • querycontent queryget_posts()one call below block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks()
  • optionoption read or writeget_option()one call below block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks()

Further down the call graph this can also reach 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 block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always36–39_deprecated_function(), wp_get_nav_menu_items(), _wp_menu_item_classes_by_context(), block_core_navigation_parse_blocks_from_menu_items(), serialize_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: 48 instructions, 36–39 executed per call, 5 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 · 5

Used by · 1

Source code

function block_core_navigation_get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks( $classic_nav_menu ) { 	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '6.3.0', 'WP_Navigation_Fallback::get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks' ); 	// BEGIN: Code that already exists in wp_nav_menu().	$menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $classic_nav_menu->term_id, array( 'update_post_term_cache' => false ) ); 	// Set up the $menu_item variables.	_wp_menu_item_classes_by_context( $menu_items ); 	$sorted_menu_items = array();	foreach ( (array) $menu_items as $menu_item ) {		$sorted_menu_items[ $menu_item->menu_order ] = $menu_item;	} 	unset( $menu_items, $menu_item ); 	// END: Code that already exists in wp_nav_menu(). 	$menu_items_by_parent_id = array();	foreach ( $sorted_menu_items as $menu_item ) {		$menu_items_by_parent_id[ $menu_item->menu_item_parent ][] = $menu_item;	} 	$inner_blocks = block_core_navigation_parse_blocks_from_menu_items(		$menu_items_by_parent_id[0] ?? array(),		$menu_items_by_parent_id	); 	return serialize_blocks( $inner_blocks );}

Changelog

Introduced in 6.2.0. 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.

6.3.0
Deprecated. Use WP_Navigation_Fallback::get_classic_menu_fallback_blocks() instead.from the docblock
6.2.0
Introduced.from the docblock

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