twentysixteen_entry_date()

Description

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 twentysixteen_entry_date() 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_post().

Scaling

Constant

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

Instructions

50–51

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 51.

Plugin surface

None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by

1

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

What it touches

• querycontent queryget_post()one call below twentysixteen_entry_date()
• optionoption read or writeget_option()one call below twentysixteen_entry_date()
• hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()one call below twentysixteen_entry_date()

Further down the call graph this can also reach 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 · 1 distinct outcome

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

Uses · 8

• get_the_time()Retrieves the time of the post.
• get_the_modified_time()Retrieves the time at which the post was last modified.
• esc_attr()Escaping for HTML attributes.
• get_the_date()Retrieves the date of the post.
• get_the_modified_date()Retrieves the date on which the post was last modified.
• _x()Retrieves translated string with gettext context.
• esc_url()Checks and cleans a URL.
• get_permalink()Retrieves the full permalink for the current post or post ID.

Used by · 1

• twentysixteen_entry_meta()Prints HTML with meta information for the categories, tags.

Source code

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79	function twentysixteen_entry_date() {80		$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="%1$s">%2$s</time>';81 82		if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {83			$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s">%2$s</time><time class="updated" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time>';84		}85 86		$time_string = sprintf(87			$time_string,88			esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),89			get_the_date(),90			esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),91			get_the_modified_date()92		);93 94		printf(95			'<span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">%1$s </span><a href="%2$s" rel="bookmark">%3$s</a></span>',96			/* translators: Hidden accessibility text. */97			_x( 'Posted on', 'Used before publish date.', 'twentysixteen' ),98			esc_url( get_permalink() ),99			$time_string100		);101	}

Changelog

Introduced in Twenty Sixteen 1.0. 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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