get_post_gallery( int|WP_Post $post = 0, bool $html = true ): string|array
- Since
- 3.6.0
- Source
wp-includes/media.php:5584
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 3.6.0
- 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
$postint|WP_Postoptional- Post ID or WP_Post object. Default is global $post.Default:
0 $htmlbooloptional- Whether to return HTML or data. Default is true.Default:
true
Return value
string|array- Gallery data and srcs parsed from the expanded shortcode.
Performance profile
How much work a call to get_post_gallery() 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
- Constant
- Instructions
- 18
- Plugin surface
- 1 hook
- Called by
- 1
Reaches the database via get_post().
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 18.
Third-party callbacks on 'get_post_gallery' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.
1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
apply_filters()called directly - querycontent query
get_post()one call below get_post_gallery()
Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, serialize, option 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_post_gallery() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 18 | get_post_galleries(), reset(), apply_filters() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 18 instructions, 18 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.
Hooks and filters fired · 1
One hook fires while get_post_gallery() runs, in this order:
- apply_filters( get_post_gallery )filterline 5597 (+13 into the body)
Filters the first-found post gallery.
Uses · 2
- get_post_galleries()Retrieves galleries from the passed post's content.
- apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.
Used by · 1
- get_post_gallery_images()Checks a post's content for galleries and return the image srcs for the first found gallery.
Source code
function get_post_gallery( $post = 0, $html = true ) { $galleries = get_post_galleries( $post, $html ); $gallery = reset( $galleries ); /** * Filters the first-found post gallery. * * @since 3.6.0 * * @param array $gallery The first-found post gallery. * @param int|WP_Post $post Post ID or object. * @param array $galleries Associative array of all found post galleries. */ return apply_filters( 'get_post_gallery', $gallery, $post, $galleries );}Changelog
Introduced in 3.6.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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