wp_setup_nav_menu_item( object $menu_item ): object

Description

Compatibility

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$menu_itemobject

The menu item to modify.

Return value

object

The menu item with standard menu item properties.

Performance profile

How much work a call to wp_setup_nav_menu_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

Heavy

Reaches the database via get_post().

Scaling

Constant

No loop in the body: the same number of instructions runs whatever you pass in.

Instructions

18–175

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 520.

Plugin surface

5 hooks

Third-party callbacks on 'pre_wp_setup_nav_menu_item', 'the_title', 'nav_menu_attr_title' run inside this call, and their cost is not bounded by anything here.

Called by

3

3 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
• querycontent queryget_post()called directly
• optionoption read or writeget_option()one call below wp_setup_nav_menu_item()

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 · 168 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost wp_setup_nav_menu_item() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

This body has more branch combinations than are worth enumerating, so the table covers the outcomes found first rather than every one that exists.

Hooks and filters fired · 7

7 hooks fire while wp_setup_nav_menu_item() runs, in this order:

1. 1
   apply_filters( pre_wp_setup_nav_menu_item )filterline 858 (+13 into the body)

   Filters whether to short-circuit the wp_setup_nav_menu_item() output.

2. 2
   apply_filters( the_title )filterline 898 (+53 into the body)

   Filters the post title.

3. 3
   apply_filters( nav_menu_attr_title )filterline 969 (+124 into the body)

   Filters a navigation menu item's title attribute.

4. 4
   apply_filters( nav_menu_description )filterline 979 (+134 into the body)

   Filters a navigation menu item's description.

5. 5
   apply_filters( nav_menu_attr_title )filterline 1004 (+159 into the body)

   Filters a navigation menu item's title attribute.

6. 6
   apply_filters( nav_menu_description )filterline 1007 (+162 into the body)

   Filters a navigation menu item's description.

7. 7
   apply_filters( wp_setup_nav_menu_item )filterline 1040 (+195 into the body)

   Filters a navigation menu item object.

Uses · 16

• apply_filters()Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.
• get_post_meta()Retrieves a post meta field for the given post ID.
• get_post_type_object()Retrieves a post type object by name.
• get_post()Retrieves post data given a post ID or post object.
• get_post_states()Retrieves an array of post states from a post.
• wp_strip_all_tags()Properly strips all HTML tags including 'script' and 'style'.
• get_post_status()Retrieves the post status based on the post ID.
• get_permalink()Retrieves the full permalink for the current post or post ID.
• __()Retrieves the translation of $text.
• wp_trim_words()Trims text to a certain number of words.
• get_post_type_archive_link()Retrieves the permalink for a post type archive.
• get_taxonomy()Retrieves the taxonomy object of $taxonomy.

Used by · 3

• WP_Customize_Nav_Menu_Item_Setting::value()Get the instance data for a given nav_menu_item setting.
• WP_REST_Menu_Items_Controller::get_nav_menu_item()Gets the nav menu item, if the ID is valid.
• wp_ajax_add_menu_item()Handles adding a menu item via AJAX.

Source code

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845function wp_setup_nav_menu_item( $menu_item ) {846 847	/**848	 * Filters whether to short-circuit the wp_setup_nav_menu_item() output.849	 *850	 * Returning a non-null value from the filter will short-circuit wp_setup_nav_menu_item(),851	 * returning that value instead.852	 *853	 * @since 6.3.0854	 *855	 * @param object|null $modified_menu_item Modified menu item. Default null.856	 * @param object      $menu_item          The menu item to modify.857	 */858	$pre_menu_item = apply_filters( 'pre_wp_setup_nav_menu_item', null, $menu_item );859 860	if ( null !== $pre_menu_item ) {861		return $pre_menu_item;862	}863 864	if ( isset( $menu_item->post_type ) ) {865		if ( 'nav_menu_item' === $menu_item->post_type ) {866			$menu_item->db_id            = (int) $menu_item->ID;867			$menu_item->menu_item_parent = ! isset( $menu_item->menu_item_parent ) ? get_post_meta( $menu_item->ID, '_menu_item_menu_item_parent', true ) : $menu_item->menu_item_parent;868			$menu_item->object_id        = ! isset( $menu_item->object_id ) ? get_post_meta( $menu_item->ID, '_menu_item_object_id', true ) : $menu_item->object_id;869			$menu_item->object           = ! isset( $menu_item->object ) ? get_post_meta( $menu_item->ID, '_menu_item_object', true ) : $menu_item->object;870			$menu_item->type             = ! isset( $menu_item->type ) ? get_post_meta( $menu_item->ID, '_menu_item_type', true ) : $menu_item->type;871 872			if ( 'post_type' === $menu_item->type ) {873				$object = get_post_type_object( $menu_item->object );874				if ( $object ) {875					$menu_item->type_label = $object->labels->singular_name;876					// Denote post states for special pages (only in the admin).877					if ( function_exists( 'get_post_states' ) ) {878						$menu_post   = get_post( $menu_item->object_id );879						$post_states = get_post_states( $menu_post );880						if ( $post_states ) {881							$menu_item->type_label = wp_strip_all_tags( implode( ', ', $post_states ) );882						}883					}884				} else {885					$menu_item->type_label = $menu_item->object;886					$menu_item->_invalid   = true;887				}888 889				if ( 'trash' === get_post_status( $menu_item->object_id ) ) {890					$menu_item->_invalid = true;891				}892 893				$original_object = get_post( $menu_item->object_id );894 895				if ( $original_object ) {896					$menu_item->url = get_permalink( $original_object->ID );897					/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/post-template.php */898					$original_title = apply_filters( 'the_title', $original_object->post_title, $original_object->ID );899				} else {900					$menu_item->url      = '';901					$original_title      = '';902					$menu_item->_invalid = true;903				}904 905				if ( '' === $original_title ) {906					/* translators: %d: ID of a post. */907					$original_title = sprintf( __( '#%d (no title)' ), $menu_item->object_id );908				}909 910				$menu_item->title = ( '' === $menu_item->post_title ) ? $original_title : $menu_item->post_title;911 912			} elseif ( 'post_type_archive' === $menu_item->type ) {913				$object = get_post_type_object( $menu_item->object );914				if ( $object ) {915					$menu_item->title      = ( '' === $menu_item->post_title ) ? $object->labels->archives : $menu_item->post_title;916					$post_type_description = $object->description;917				} else {918					$post_type_description = '';919					$menu_item->_invalid   = true;920				}921 922				$menu_item->type_label = __( 'Post Type Archive' );923				$post_content          = wp_trim_words( $menu_item->post_content, 200 );924				$post_type_description = ( '' === $post_content ) ? $post_type_description : $post_content;

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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