Provide a way to load multiple specific options with a single database request

[shabnam611]

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58962

Keyword: needs-dev-note
Ticket owner: flixos90
Core committer: mukesh27

[github-actions]

Heads up @WordPress/docs-issues-coordinators, we have a new issue open. Time to use 'em labels.

[codente]

This will be included in dev note "Optimizing autoloaded options dev note" by Performance Team
WordPress/performance#840

[felixarntz]

Dev note draft for this and a few other related tickets ready for review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ADBnA115cjmFb60yyKAYWdYxSHojqbZF-vNUT1teV4/edit

This covers:

• 58962
• 58964
• 51352

See the performance team's dev note issue for a better overview: WordPress/performance#840

[codente]

@felixarntz I've reviewed that. Nice work! The examples should definitely be helpful to devs. Would this be beneficial in the field guide?

[felixarntz]

Dev note published: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/10/17/new-option-functions-in-6-4/

I think it would be good to highlight in the field guide something like:

New functions prime_options(), get_options(), and wp_set_option_autoload_values() allow enhancing performance of retrieving options from the database.

(with a link to the full dev note)

[codente]

Thank you @felixarntz!

@abhansnuk I added this to the field guide draft under Options, Meta APIs since that is the component but I'm not sure if that is correct?

[felixarntz]

@codente Thank you, that is correct.