twentytwelve_entry_meta()
- Since
- Twenty Twelve 1.0
- Source
wp-content/themes/twentytwelve/functions.php:558
Description
Prints HTML with meta information for current post: categories, tags, permalink, author, and date.
Create your own twentytwelve_entry_meta() to override in a child theme.
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since Twenty Twelve 1.0
- 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.
Performance profile
How much work a call to twentytwelve_entry_meta() 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
- 88–93
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 0
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, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 104.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.
What it touches
- hookthird-party callbacks
apply_filters()one call below twentytwelve_entry_meta() - querycontent query
get_post()one call below twentytwelve_entry_meta() - optionoption read or write
get_option()one call below twentytwelve_entry_meta()
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 · 2 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost twentytwelve_entry_meta() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
| always | 88–89 | wp_get_list_item_separator(), get_the_category_list(), wp_get_list_item_separator(), get_the_tag_list(), get_permalink(), esc_url(), get_the_time(), esc_attr(), get_the_date(), esc_attr(), get_the_date(), esc_html(), sprintf(), get_the_author_meta(), get_author_posts_url(), esc_url(), __(), get_the_author(), sprintf(), esc_attr(), get_the_author(), sprintf(), __(), printf() |
| always | 92–93 | wp_get_list_item_separator(), get_the_category_list(), wp_get_list_item_separator(), get_the_tag_list(), get_permalink(), esc_url(), get_the_time(), esc_attr(), get_the_date(), esc_attr(), get_the_date(), esc_html(), sprintf(), get_the_author_meta(), get_author_posts_url(), esc_url(), __(), get_the_author(), sprintf(), esc_attr(), get_the_author(), sprintf(), is_wp_error(), __(), printf() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 104 instructions, 88–93 executed per call, 3 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 · 14
- get_the_category_list()Retrieves category list for a post in either HTML list or custom format.
- wp_get_list_item_separator()Retrieves the list item separator based on the locale.
- get_the_tag_list()Retrieves the tags for a post formatted as a string.
- esc_url()Checks and cleans a URL.
- get_permalink()Retrieves the full permalink for the current post or post ID.
- esc_attr()Escaping for HTML attributes.
- get_the_time()Retrieves the time of the post.
- get_the_date()Retrieves the date of the post.
- esc_html()Escaping for HTML blocks.
- get_author_posts_url()Retrieves the URL to the author page for the user with the ID provided.
- get_the_author_meta()Retrieves the requested data of the author of the current post.
- __()Retrieves the translation of $text.
Show all 14
- get_the_author()Retrieves the author of the current post.
- is_wp_error()Checks whether the given variable is a WordPress Error.
Source code
function twentytwelve_entry_meta() { $categories_list = get_the_category_list( wp_get_list_item_separator() ); $tags_list = get_the_tag_list( '', wp_get_list_item_separator() ); $date = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a>', esc_url( get_permalink() ), esc_attr( get_the_time() ), esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ), esc_html( get_the_date() ) ); $author = sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author">%3$s</a></span>', esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ), /* translators: %s: Author display name. */ esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), get_the_author() ) ), get_the_author() ); if ( $tags_list && ! is_wp_error( $tags_list ) ) { /* translators: 1: Category name, 2: Tag name, 3: Date, 4: Author display name. */ $utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s and tagged %2$s on %3$s<span class="by-author"> by %4$s</span>.', 'twentytwelve' ); } elseif ( $categories_list ) { /* translators: 1: Category name, 3: Date, 4: Author display name. */ $utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s on %3$s<span class="by-author"> by %4$s</span>.', 'twentytwelve' ); } else { /* translators: 3: Date, 4: Author display name. */ $utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted on %3$s<span class="by-author"> by %4$s</span>.', 'twentytwelve' ); } printf( $utility_text, $categories_list, $tags_list, $date, $author ); }Changelog
Introduced in Twenty Twelve 1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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