From a9775c45d8461138756fa164847fb2479dd898ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weston Ruter <weston@xwp.co>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:34:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61716


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@61024 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-admin/includes/file.php   | 2 +-
 wp-admin/includes/plugin.php | 4 ++--
 wp-admin/includes/theme.php  | 4 ++--
 wp-includes/category.php     | 2 +-
 wp-includes/version.php      | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/file.php b/wp-admin/includes/file.php
index 09d080da2d..99dc03c6cd 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/file.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/file.php
@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ function WP_Filesystem( $args = false, $context = false, $allow_relaxed_file_own
 		$abstraction_file = apply_filters( 'filesystem_method_file', ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-' . $method . '.php', $method );
 
 		if ( ! file_exists( $abstraction_file ) ) {
-			return;
+			return null;
 		}
 
 		require_once $abstraction_file;
diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php b/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php
index 460874ca52..fae10f1a67 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ function delete_plugins( $plugins, $deprecated = '' ) {
 			require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/admin-footer.php';
 			exit;
 		}
-		return;
+		return null;
 	}
 
 	if ( ! WP_Filesystem( $credentials ) ) {
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ function delete_plugins( $plugins, $deprecated = '' ) {
 			require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/admin-footer.php';
 			exit;
 		}
-		return;
+		return null;
 	}
 
 	if ( ! is_object( $wp_filesystem ) ) {
diff --git a/wp-admin/includes/theme.php b/wp-admin/includes/theme.php
index 8fa5d06a16..ef5793b7dd 100644
--- a/wp-admin/includes/theme.php
+++ b/wp-admin/includes/theme.php
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function delete_theme( $stylesheet, $redirect = '' ) {
 			require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/admin-footer.php';
 			exit;
 		}
-		return;
+		return null;
 	}
 
 	if ( ! WP_Filesystem( $credentials ) ) {
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ function delete_theme( $stylesheet, $redirect = '' ) {
 			require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/admin-footer.php';
 			exit;
 		}
-		return;
+		return null;
 	}
 
 	if ( ! is_object( $wp_filesystem ) ) {
diff --git a/wp-includes/category.php b/wp-includes/category.php
index d1c43274d7..8fb6b1c547 100644
--- a/wp-includes/category.php
+++ b/wp-includes/category.php
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ function get_category_by_path( $category_path, $full_match = true, $output = OBJ
 	);
 
 	if ( empty( $categories ) ) {
-		return;
+		return null;
 	}
 
 	foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 375ace1013..1cb2457555 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '7.0-beta1-61715';
+$wp_version = '7.0-beta1-61716';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.