Mukesh Panchal
Senior Web Engineer | Member of Core Performance team
@mukesh27 Ahmedabad, India joined May 2012
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- On my own time 4 hrs/wk
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September 2026
Sep 18
Fri · 05:20
Core
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Submitted pull request #13595 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Hoist the numeric term check out of the `is_object_in_term()` loop
Hoist the numeric term check out of the `is_object_in_term()` loop
Sep 18
Fri · 04:29
Core
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Submitted pull request #13594 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Widgets: Avoid repeated `get_option()` calls in `wp_widget_rss_output()`
Widgets: Avoid repeated `get_option()` calls in `wp_widget_rss_output()`
Sep 18
Fri · 04:28
Core
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Sep 18
Fri · 03:47
Core
high
Sep 18
Fri · 02:20
Core
high
Mentioned in [63757] on WordPress SVN:
General: Hoist option lookups out of `wp_get_archives()` loops.
General: Hoist option lookups out of `wp_get_archives()` loops.
Sep 17
Thu · 12:58
Core
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Submitted pull request #13580 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Hoist repeated `get_option()` calls out of the `wp_get_archives()` loops
Hoist repeated `get_option()` calls out of the `wp_get_archives()` loops
Sep 17
Thu · 12:57
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Created ticket #66128 on Core Trac:
Hoist repeated get_option() calls out of the wp_get_archives() loops
Hoist repeated get_option() calls out of the wp_get_archives() loops
Sep 17
Thu · 10:36
Core
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Sep 17
Thu · 10:28
Core
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Submitted pull request #13576 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Feeds: Hoist loop-invariant calls out of `get_the_category_rss()`
Feeds: Hoist loop-invariant calls out of `get_the_category_rss()`
Sep 15
Tue · 17:50
Core
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