Title: Performance: Cache the year/month dropdown on admin post pages
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: December 15, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Performance: Cache the year/month dropdown on admin post pages

# Performance: Cache the year/month dropdown on admin post pages

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 15 December 2021

17:11:15 GMT+0000

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To prevent an expensive query occurring on every admin posts-edit page load, this
caches the available months/years for the dropdown filter.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2692](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2692)