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image_add_caption( string $html, int $id, string $caption, string $title, string $align, string $url, string $size, string $alt = '' ): string

Since
2.6.0
Source
wp-admin/includes/media.php:188
Adds image shortcode with caption to editor.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 2.6.0
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

$htmlstring
The image HTML markup to send.
$idint
Image attachment ID.
$captionstring
Image caption.
$titlestring
Image title attribute (not used).
$alignstring
Image CSS alignment property.
$urlstring
Image source URL (not used).
$sizestring
Image size (not used).
$altstringoptional
Image alt attribute (not used).Default: ''

Return value

string
The image HTML markup with caption shortcode.

Performance profile

How much work a call to image_add_caption() 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

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Constant

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

Instructions
17–68

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 71.

Plugin surface
3 hooks

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

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What it touches

  • hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()called directly
  • regexregular expression over the whole inputpreg_replace_callback()called directly

What one call costs · 4 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
empty($caption)17apply_filters()
!empty($caption) && apply_filters()22apply_filters(), apply_filters()
!empty($caption) && !apply_filters() && !preg_match()33–34apply_filters(), apply_filters(), preg_match()
!empty($caption) && !apply_filters() && preg_match()66–68apply_filters(), apply_filters(), preg_match(), preg_replace_callback(), apply_filters()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev7117–685
8.57117–685
8.47117–6859 fewer instructions than PHP 8.3
8.38017–775
8.28017–775
8.18017–7751 fewer instruction than PHP 7.4
7.48117–785

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 · 3

3 hooks fire while image_add_caption() runs, in this order:

  1. apply_filters( image_add_caption_text )filterline 204 (+16 into the body)

    Filters the caption text.

  2. apply_filters( disable_captions )filterline 216 (+28 into the body)

    Filters whether to disable captions.

  3. apply_filters( image_add_caption_shortcode )filterline 249 (+61 into the body)

    Filters the image HTML markup including the caption shortcode.

Uses · 1

  • apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.

Changelog

Introduced in 2.6.0. 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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