get_most_recent_post_of_user( int $user_id ): array
- Since
- MU (3.0.0)
- Source
wp-includes/ms-functions.php:1992
Description
Walks through each of a user's blogs to find the post with the most recent post_date_gmt.
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since MU (3.0.0)
- 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
$user_idint- User ID.
Return value
array- Contains the blog_id, post_id, post_date_gmt, and post_gmt_ts.
Performance profile
How much work a call to get_most_recent_post_of_user() 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
- Scaling
- Scales with input
- Instructions
- 12–13
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
Reads stored settings via get_option(), cached per request but not free on a cold cache.
The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 52.
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
apply_filters()one call below get_most_recent_post_of_user() - optionoption read or write
get_option()one call below get_most_recent_post_of_user()
Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize, query 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 get_most_recent_post_of_user() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 12–13 | get_blogs_of_user() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 52 instructions, 12–13 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 · 1
- get_blogs_of_user()Gets the sites a user belongs to.
Source code
function get_most_recent_post_of_user( $user_id ) { global $wpdb; $user_blogs = get_blogs_of_user( (int) $user_id ); $most_recent_post = array(); /* * Walk through each blog and get the most recent post * published by $user_id. */ foreach ( (array) $user_blogs as $blog ) { $prefix = $wpdb->get_blog_prefix( $blog->userblog_id ); $recent_post = $wpdb->get_row( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID, post_date_gmt FROM {$prefix}posts WHERE post_author = %d AND post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 1", $user_id ), ARRAY_A ); // Make sure we found a post. if ( isset( $recent_post['ID'] ) ) { $post_gmt_ts = strtotime( $recent_post['post_date_gmt'] ); /* * If this is the first post checked * or if this post is newer than the current recent post, * make it the new most recent post. */ if ( ! isset( $most_recent_post['post_gmt_ts'] ) || ( $post_gmt_ts > $most_recent_post['post_gmt_ts'] ) ) { $most_recent_post = array( 'blog_id' => $blog->userblog_id, 'post_id' => $recent_post['ID'], 'post_date_gmt' => $recent_post['post_date_gmt'], 'post_gmt_ts' => $post_gmt_ts, ); } } } return $most_recent_post;}Changelog
Introduced in MU (3.0.0). Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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