install_dashboard()

Compatibility

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Performance profile

How much work a call to install_dashboard() 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

Reads stored settings via get_site_transient(), cached per request but not free on a cold cache.

Scaling

Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with how much data it finds.

Instructions

25–39

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 74.

Plugin surface

None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by

0

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

What it touches

• transienttransientget_site_transient()one call below install_dashboard()
• hookthird-party callbacksdo_action()one call below install_dashboard()

Further down the call graph this can also reach cache, option, http, query and serialize. 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 install_dashboard() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

Uses · 9

• display_plugins_table()Displays plugin content based on plugin list.
• _e()Displays translated text.
• install_popular_tags()Retrieves popular WordPress plugin tags.
• is_wp_error()Checks whether the given variable is a WordPress Error.
• self_admin_url()Retrieves the URL to the admin area for either the current site or the network depending on context.
• esc_url()Checks and cleans a URL.
• sanitize_title_with_dashes()Sanitizes a title, replacing whitespace and a few other characters with dashes.
• wp_generate_tag_cloud()Generates a tag cloud (heatmap) from provided data.
• __()Retrieves the translation of $text.

Source code

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264function install_dashboard() {265	display_plugins_table();266	?>267 268	<div class="plugins-popular-tags-wrapper">269	<h2><?php _e( 'Popular tags' ); ?></h2>270	<p><?php _e( 'You may also browse based on the most popular tags in the Plugin Directory:' ); ?></p>271	<?php272 273	$api_tags = install_popular_tags();274 275	echo '<p class="popular-tags">';276	if ( is_wp_error( $api_tags ) ) {277		echo $api_tags->get_error_message();278	} else {279		// Set up the tags in a way which can be interpreted by wp_generate_tag_cloud().280		$tags = array();281		foreach ( (array) $api_tags as $tag ) {282			$url                  = self_admin_url( 'plugin-install.php?tab=search&type=tag&s=' . urlencode( $tag['name'] ) );283			$data                 = array(284				'link'  => esc_url( $url ),285				'name'  => $tag['name'],286				'slug'  => $tag['slug'],287				'id'    => sanitize_title_with_dashes( $tag['name'] ),288				'count' => $tag['count'],289			);290			$tags[ $tag['name'] ] = (object) $data;291		}292		echo wp_generate_tag_cloud(293			$tags,294			array(295				/* translators: %s: Number of plugins. */296				'single_text'   => __( '%s plugin' ),297				/* translators: %s: Number of plugins. */298				'multiple_text' => __( '%s plugins' ),299			)300		);301	}302	echo '</p><br class="clear" /></div>';303}

Changelog

Introduced in 2.7.0. 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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