update_menu_item_cache( WP_Post[] $menu_items )
- Since
- 6.1.0
- Source
wp-includes/nav-menu.php:787
Compatibility
- WordPress
- since 6.1.0
- PHP
- 7.4–8.6-dev
- 6.7.7
- 6.8.8
- 6.9.7
- 7.0.4
- 7.1.0
Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.
Parameters
Performance profile
How much work a call to update_menu_item_cache() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.
- Cost class
- Light
- Scaling
- Scales with input
- Instructions
- 10–18
- Plugin surface
- None
- Called by
- 1
Touches nothing outside its own arguments.
The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.
Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 49.
Nothing here hands control to plugin code.
1 place in core call this, so the cost is paid more often than your own code shows.
What one call costs · 4 distinct outcomes
One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost update_menu_item_cache() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.
| When | Instructions | Calls it makes |
|---|---|---|
empty($post_ids) && empty($term_ids) | 10–11 | none |
empty($post_ids) && !empty($term_ids) | 13–14 | _prime_term_caches() |
!empty($post_ids) && empty($term_ids) | 14–15 | _prime_post_caches() |
!empty($post_ids) && !empty($term_ids) | 17–18 | _prime_post_caches(), _prime_term_caches() |
Across PHP versions
Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 49 instructions, 10–18 executed per call, 7 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
- get_post_meta()Retrieves a post meta field for the given post ID.
- _prime_post_caches()Adds any posts from the given IDs to the cache that do not already exist in cache.
- _prime_term_caches()Adds any terms from the given IDs to the cache that do not already exist in cache.
Used by · 1
- WP_Query::get_posts()Retrieves an array of posts based on query variables.
Source code
function update_menu_item_cache( $menu_items ) { $post_ids = array(); $term_ids = array(); foreach ( $menu_items as $menu_item ) { if ( 'nav_menu_item' !== $menu_item->post_type ) { continue; } $object_id = get_post_meta( $menu_item->ID, '_menu_item_object_id', true ); $type = get_post_meta( $menu_item->ID, '_menu_item_type', true ); if ( 'post_type' === $type ) { $post_ids[] = (int) $object_id; } elseif ( 'taxonomy' === $type ) { $term_ids[] = (int) $object_id; } } if ( ! empty( $post_ids ) ) { _prime_post_caches( $post_ids, false ); } if ( ! empty( $term_ids ) ) { _prime_term_caches( $term_ids ); }}Changelog
Introduced in 6.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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