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Suppose I am developing a minimal theme, the the post page single.php displays only the post title, the excerpt and the content.

So in general that would be

<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>

So I am expecting 3 queries...

Instead if I write a custom query where I am just fetching these 3 datas in an array at once...

<?php arr[] = get_row(select title, excerpt, content from wp_posts where post_id = 1); ?>
<?php echo arr[0] ?>
<?php echo arr[1] ?>
<?php echo arr[2] ?>

Which is faster or does it make a difference ?

Plz ignore syntax if wrong...

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    There are no native database queries in the WordPress functions the_title(), the_excerpt() and the_content(). You should profile your theme to better see where the queries come from. Many good tools out there.
    – birgire
    Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 9:29

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Queries ofcourse. It's faster...

But in this case just please delete you wp site and start with something faster... here is my superfast framework for you...

<?php 
/*Your bunny wrote */

I did tests, 0.0000001 runtime vs WP usually 0.7-2.8

Sarcasm off

P/S/ This question have no sence since using direct queries and output of the variables isn't use advantages of the WP. Author obviosly CAN do that, but I am wandering why to use WP and not using all positive things of it.

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