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Week in Test: November 3, 2025
Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find the Test Team in #core-test. Calls for Testing 📣 Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins.…
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Guide to Screen Recording for Usability Testing
If you are doing or moderating an observational usability test, you will want to capture a recording of the screen interactions and your participant’s voice (audio) as they are completing the task. This guide will help you to do that. Note that the screen recording instructions here do not include a visual recording of your…
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User Feedback Agreement
Thanks for your interest in giving us feedback about WordPress! If you’re selected for a research study, we’ll set up a call that involves audio, video, and/or screen sharing. Each study may be different. For example, we may give you access to WordPress features that are still being developed, or observe how you interact with…
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Full Site Editing Outreach Program
This page serves as a historical record for the FSE Outreach Program in case future outreach programs are created. To see the latest information, please view this post on Evolving the FSE Outreach Program. For context on this program’s origins, please review this post shared on May 1st, 2020 kicking off this initiative. Program Goal…
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FAQ for FSE Outreach Program
This is a FAQ for the Full Site Editing Outreach Experiment. If you have a question to add to this document, please share it in #fse-outreach-experiment in WordPress slack. What is the goal of this outreach program? Previously, the goal was to improve the Site Editing experience by gathering feedback from WordPress site builders. When…
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Usability Tests
GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ (editor): Testing the Gutenberg User test User testing the Gutenberg editor Some results Gutenberg…
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Guide to Observational Usability Testing
This is a short guide to help anyone who would like to run a usability test. No prior experience is assumed, so if you are new to usability testing, you may find the tips and tricks section at the end of this post useful. Happy testing! What is usability testing Usability testing is an umbrella…
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Pre-release Testing
This page is a stub and needs improvement. If you would like to help improve it or notice an error, please say hello in [#core-test] on WordPress Slack. Regression testing, or pre-release testing, is the practice of running functional tests to ensure that previously developed and tested features still work after a change. A good…
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Glossary
dl.glossary-list dd { margin-top: -50px; padding-top: 50px; } Anxiety flow Anxiety flowAnxiety flow Anxiety flow is the result of mistrust and lack of context. Navigating to the front end of the site to double check a post after publishing is an example of anxiety flow. As is checking your destination before and after publishing when you run…
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Gutenberg Usability Testing
What is GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Gutenberg is the project name of the new editing experience in WordPress.…