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1. ext103
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   hello everyone, just a quickie.

   i have a <ul> of bookmarking icons on my new theme. when clicked they all use a function i created to get post short url

   here it is
   function ext_theme_short_url(){global $post; echo get_bloginfo('url')."/?p=".$post->ID;}

   now, should i add this to each href for each icon? like this
   <?php echo ext_theme_short_url(); ?>

   or should i call it like this?

   $link = echo ext_theme_short_url();

   and then add
   <?php echo $link; ?>

   to each href.

   i guess what i am asking is will this reduce the mysql lookup from many requests to 1?

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If I understand it correctly, since get_bloginfo('url'); 'eventually' uses get_option, and the site_url and home values are autoloaded, I'd guess there's only one read of the database and that's done automatically by WordPress core.

3. ext103
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   is that right?

   i mean when you call an option, does it only call it once per page?

   say i had get_bloginfo('url'); called 5-6 times on the same page.

   would that give me 5-6 database calls or one?

   thanks for posting

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