get_others_unpublished_posts( int $user_id, string $type = 'any' ): array

Compatibility

Deprecated in WordPress 3.1.0. Use get_posts()

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 to not retrieve posts from.

$typestringoptional

Post type to retrieve. Accepts 'draft', 'pending' or 'any' (all).
Default 'any'.Default: 'any'

Return value

array

List of posts from others.

Performance profile

How much work a call to get_others_unpublished_posts() 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_results().

Scaling

Constant

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

Instructions

26–50

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 54.

Plugin surface

1 hook

Third-party callbacks on 'get_others_drafts' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.

Called by

2

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

What it touches

• hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()called directly
• sqldatabase query->get_results()called directly

Further down the call graph this can also reach query, option, 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 · 2 distinct outcomes

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

Hooks and filters fired · 1

One hook fires while get_others_unpublished_posts() runs, in this order:

1. 1
   apply_filters( get_others_drafts )filterline 715 (+21 into the body)

Uses · 3

• _deprecated_function()Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.
• get_editable_user_ids()Gets the IDs of any users who can edit posts.
• apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.

Used by · 2

• get_others_drafts()Retrieve drafts from other users.
• get_others_pending()Retrieve pending review posts from other users.

Source code

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694function get_others_unpublished_posts( $user_id, $type = 'any' ) {695	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '3.1.0' );696 697	global $wpdb;698 699	$editable = get_editable_user_ids( $user_id );700 701	if ( in_array($type, array('draft', 'pending')) )702		$type_sql = " post_status = '$type' ";703	else704		$type_sql = " ( post_status = 'draft' OR post_status = 'pending' ) ";705 706	$dir = ( 'pending' == $type ) ? 'ASC' : 'DESC';707 708	if ( !$editable ) {709		$other_unpubs = '';710	} else {711		$editable = join(',', $editable);712		$other_unpubs = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT ID, post_title, post_author FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND $type_sql AND post_author IN ($editable) AND post_author != %d ORDER BY post_modified $dir", $user_id) );713	}714 715	return apply_filters('get_others_drafts', $other_unpubs);716}

Changelog

Introduced in 2.3.0. 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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