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wp_is_auto_update_forced_for_item( string $type, bool|null $update, object $item ): bool

Since
5.6.0
Source
wp-admin/includes/update.php:1087
Checks whether auto-updates are forced for an item.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 5.6.0
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

$typestring
The type of update being checked: Either 'theme' or 'plugin'.
$updatebool|null
Whether to update. The value of null is internally used to detect whether nothing has hooked into this filter.
$itemobject
The update offer.

Return value

bool
True if auto-updates are forced for $item, false otherwise.

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_is_auto_update_forced_for_item() 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
10

Executed per call on PHP 8.5. The body compiles to 10.

Plugin surface
1 hook

Third-party callbacks on 'auto_update_{$type}' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.

Called by
8

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

What it touches

  • hookthird-party callbacksapply_filters()called directly

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always10apply_filters()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 10 instructions, 10 executed per call, 0 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.

Hooks and filters fired · 1

One hook fires while wp_is_auto_update_forced_for_item() runs, in this order:

  1. apply_filters( auto_update_{$type} )filterline 1089 (+2 into the body)

    Filters whether to automatically update core, a plugin, a theme, or a language.

Uses · 1

  • apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.

Used by · 8

Source code

function wp_is_auto_update_forced_for_item( $type, $update, $item ) {	/** This filter is documented in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-automatic-updater.php */	return apply_filters( "auto_update_{$type}", $update, $item );}

Changelog

Introduced in 5.6.0. 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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