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wp_admin_css_color( string $key, string $name, string $url, array $colors = array(), array $icons = array() )

Since
2.5.0
Source
wp-includes/general-template.php:4887
Registers an admin color scheme css file.

Description

Allows a plugin to register a new admin color scheme. For example:

wp_admin_css_color( 'classic', __( 'Classic' ), admin_url( "css/colors-classic.css" ), array(
 '#07273E', '#14568A', '#D54E21', '#2683AE'
) );

Compatibility

WordPress
since 2.5.0
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

$keystring
The unique key for this theme.
$namestring
The name of the theme.
$urlstring
The URL of the CSS file containing the color scheme.
$colorsarrayoptional
An array of CSS color definition strings which are used to give the user a feel for the theme.Default: array()
$iconsarrayoptional
CSS color definitions used to color any SVG icons.Default: array()

  • $basestring

    SVG icon base color.

  • $focusstring

    SVG icon color on focus.

  • $currentstring

    SVG icon color of current admin menu link.

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_admin_css_color() 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
16–17

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
1

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

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 wp_admin_css_color() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always16–17none

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, 16–17 executed per call, 1 branch. 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.

Used by · 1

Source code

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function wp_admin_css_color( $key, $name, $url, $colors = array(), $icons = array() ) {	global $_wp_admin_css_colors; 	if ( ! isset( $_wp_admin_css_colors ) ) {		$_wp_admin_css_colors = array();	} 	$_wp_admin_css_colors[ $key ] = (object) array(		'name'        => $name,		'url'         => $url,		'colors'      => $colors,		'icon_colors' => $icons,	);}

Changelog

Introduced in 2.5.0. 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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