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wp_nav_menu_item_link_meta_box()

Since
3.0.0
Source
wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php:357
Displays a meta box for the custom links menu item.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 3.0.0
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 wp_nav_menu_item_link_meta_box() 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
42–43

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 44.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

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

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always42–43_e(), wp_nav_menu_disabled_check(), _e(), _e(), wp_nav_menu_disabled_check(), wp_nav_menu_disabled_check(), esc_attr_e()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev4442–431
8.54442–431
8.44442–431
8.34442–431
8.24442–431
8.14442–4311 fewer instruction than PHP 7.4
7.44542–441

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

  • _e()Displays translated text.
  • wp_nav_menu_disabled_check()Check whether to disable the Menu Locations meta box submit button and inputs.
  • esc_attr_e()Displays translated text that has been escaped for safe use in an attribute.

Source code

function wp_nav_menu_item_link_meta_box() {	global $_nav_menu_placeholder, $nav_menu_selected_id; 	$_nav_menu_placeholder = 0 > $_nav_menu_placeholder ? $_nav_menu_placeholder - 1 : -1; 	?>	<div class="customlinkdiv" id="customlinkdiv">		<input type="hidden" value="custom" name="menu-item[<?php echo $_nav_menu_placeholder; ?>][menu-item-type]" />		<p id="menu-item-url-wrap" class="wp-clearfix">			<label for="custom-menu-item-url"><?php _e( 'URL' ); ?></label>			<input id="custom-menu-item-url" name="menu-item[<?php echo $_nav_menu_placeholder; ?>][menu-item-url]"				type="text"<?php wp_nav_menu_disabled_check( $nav_menu_selected_id ); ?>				class="code menu-item-textbox form-required" placeholder="https://"			/>			<span id="custom-url-error" class="error-message" style="display: none;"><?php _e( 'Please provide a valid link.' ); ?></span>		</p> 		<p id="menu-item-name-wrap" class="wp-clearfix">			<label for="custom-menu-item-name"><?php _e( 'Link Text' ); ?></label>			<input id="custom-menu-item-name" name="menu-item[<?php echo $_nav_menu_placeholder; ?>][menu-item-title]"				type="text"<?php wp_nav_menu_disabled_check( $nav_menu_selected_id ); ?>				class="regular-text menu-item-textbox"			/>		</p> 		<p class="button-controls button-controls-customlinkdiv">			<span class="add-to-menu">				<input id="submit-customlinkdiv" name="add-custom-menu-item"					type="submit"<?php wp_nav_menu_disabled_check( $nav_menu_selected_id ); ?>					class="button submit-add-to-menu right" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Add to Menu' ); ?>"				/>				<span class="spinner"></span>			</span>		</p> 	</div><!-- /.customlinkdiv -->	<?php}

Changelog

Introduced in 3.0.0. 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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