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Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65818

The PHP inline documentation standards place @return immediately after the last @param tag, with no blank line between them:

/** * Summary. * * @since x.x.x * * @param string $var Description. * @return string Description. */

This corrects 44 docblocks across 33 files in src/wp-includes that used a line break between the two tags.

Documentation-only; no functional change.

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Used for: I found a few occurrences myself, and Claude helped me identify the remaining ones and draft the PR.


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…cblocks.
The PHP inline documentation standards place `@return` immediately after the
last `@param` tag, with no blank line separating them. This corrects 44
docblocks across 33 files in `src/wp-includes` that used a line break between
the two tags.
Note that this only applies to PHP. The JavaScript documentation standards do
require a blank line before `@return`, so JSDoc blocks are left unchanged.
Files under `src/wp-includes/blocks/`, the test suite, and bundled third-party
libraries are out of scope for this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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