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soulseekah/metabolic
====================

A library for locking and mutexes for the WordPress Core

30PHP

Since Dec 20Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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metabolic
=========

[](#metabolic)

A WordPress plugin and developer API to optimize post, user, term and comment meta by combining sequential operations into a handful of SQL queries.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

- Install as a WordPress plugin (mu-plugin) or add it to your project as a composer dependency (`composer require soulseekah/metabolic`).
- Call `metabolic\defer_meta_updates()`.
- Perform a massive amount of meta update operations.
- Call `metabolic\commit_meta_updates()`.
- Enjoy reduced database load.

Tips
----

[](#tips)

- `use metabolic\{defer_meta_updates, commit_meta_updates}` at the top of your file.

No time to find your hotspots? `metabolic\metabolic()` will automatically defer (queue) and commit sequential adds, updates and deletes as needed. Boost this up.

API
---

[](#api)

### `metabolic\defer_meta_updates( array $args )`

[](#metabolicdefer_meta_updates-array-args-)

### `metabolic\commit_meta_updates( array $args )`

[](#metaboliccommit_meta_updates-array-args-)

### `metabolic\flush_meta_updates( array $args )`

[](#metabolicflush_meta_updates-array-args-)

### `metabolic\metabolize( bool $activate )`

[](#metabolicmetabolize-bool-activate-)

Development
-----------

[](#development)

- `composer install --dev`
- `git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:WordPress/wordpress-develop.git`
- `cd wordpress-develop && npm i && npm run build:dev; cd ..`
- `cd wordpress-develop; cp wp-tests-config-sample.php wp-tests-config.php; vim wp-tests-config.php`
- set the test database credentials and `:wq` then `cd ..`
- make sure the database exists
- `vendor/bin/phpunit`

TODO
----

[](#todo)

- Concept
- Benchmarks
- Documentation
- Recipes (common hooks to metabolize)
- Tests
- Auto-defer and auto-commit (+ profiler, partial commit short-circuiting)
- i18n

###  Health Score

13

—

LowBetter than 1% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity20

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/113c5f9278504b2e6d55fce1f8412914ed6328ff34c3b9e099493e36d2f875b7?d=identicon)[soulseekah](/maintainers/soulseekah)

---

Top Contributors

[![soulseekah](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/685880?v=4)](https://github.com/soulseekah "soulseekah (9 commits)")

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