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is_main_site( int $site_id = null, int $network_id = null ): bool

Since
3.0.0, 4.9.0
Source
wp-includes/functions.php:6400
Determines whether a site is the main site of the current network.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 4.9.0
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

$site_idintoptional
Site ID to test. Defaults to current site.Default: null
$network_idintoptional
Network ID of the network to check for.
Defaults to current network.Default: null

Return value

bool
True if $site_id is the main site of the network, or if not running Multisite.

Performance profile

How much work a call to is_main_site() 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
6–16

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 17.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
19

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

What one call costs · 3 distinct outcomes

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
!is_multisite()6is_multisite()
is_multisite()13is_multisite(), get_main_site_id()
is_multisite()16is_multisite(), get_current_blog_id(), get_main_site_id()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 17 instructions, 6–16 executed per call, 2 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 · 3

Used by · 19

Show all 19

Source code

function is_main_site( $site_id = null, $network_id = null ) {	if ( ! is_multisite() ) {		return true;	} 	if ( ! $site_id ) {		$site_id = get_current_blog_id();	} 	$site_id = (int) $site_id; 	return get_main_site_id( $network_id ) === $site_id;}

Changelog

Introduced in 3.0.0. 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.

4.9.0
The $network_id parameter was added.from the docblock
3.0.0
Introduced.from the docblock

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