Sign up ×  Does anyone know if there is a Wordpress function to
get the timeout value of a saved transient? I am using a
transient with a 5 minute timeout to cache data from a web API
call locally. Between transient timeouts I load the data locally
from the transient acting as a cache and secondary API throttle.
What I would like to do is read and display the timeout value of
the currently saved transient data so the user knows how long
they need to wait before the next data refresh. The value is
stored in the 'wp_options' table as
'_transient_timeout_transient-name', so I assume I could use the
global $wpdb object and just do a SQL query, but I wanted to
make sure there wasn't a more elegant way.  share|improve this
question  1 Answer 1  up vote 2 down vote accepted  So, after
one minute of more thinking, there is an easy solution, although
i did not try it myself:  $transient = '_transient_timeout_' .
$_your_transient_name; $transient_timeout = get_option (
$transient );  you should be ready to go with this