Changeset 61716

Timestamp:

02/23/2026 05:33:24 AM (8 months ago)

Author:

westonruter

Message:

Code Quality: Explicitly return null when documented instead of void.

This fixes a PHPStan rule level 3 error: return.empty.

Developed in ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/10995

Props huzaifaalmesbah, westonruter, shailu25, mukesh27, noruzzaman.
See #64238.

Location:

trunk/src

Files:

• wp-admin/includes/file.php (modified) (1 diff)
• wp-admin/includes/plugin.php (modified) (2 diffs)
• wp-admin/includes/theme.php (modified) (2 diffs)
• wp-includes/category.php (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/file.php

@@ -2188 +2188 @@
 
                 if ( ! file_exists( $abstraction_file ) ) {
-                        return;
+                        return null;
                 }
 

trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php

@@ -927 +927 @@
                         exit;
                 }
-                return;
+                return null;
         }
 
@@ -942 +942 @@
                         exit;
                 }
-                return;
+                return null;
         }
 

trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/theme.php

@@ -41 +41 @@
                         exit;
                 }
-                return;
+                return null;
         }
 
@@ -56 +56 @@
                         exit;
                 }
-                return;
+                return null;
         }
 

trunk/src/wp-includes/category.php

@@ -145 +145 @@
 
         if ( empty( $categories ) ) {
-                return;
+                return null;
         }