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.
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Calls for Testing 📣
Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins. The following posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:
- There are currently 15 open tickets in the 6.5.3 release milestone. More information about this release is included in this post, including the bug scrub schedule and how you can get involved.
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 29 April 2024
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
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Reproduction Testing 🔁
Who? Any contributor.
Why? It is helpful to show an issue exists for other users in order to move a ticket forward for patching.
The following new tickets are awaiting review and need testers to attempt to reproduce the reported issue (aka “repro”), and then provide a reproduction test report with the results:
- #61049 Twenty Twenty-One: header alignment with wrapping navigation on iPad Pro 11 (834 × 1194)
- #61057 Media Library not showing new uploads when filtering by date
- #61058 Edit Permalinks, Date, Time and Visibility not working on 6.5.2
- #61060 PHP Warning: Undefined array key 1 in /chroot/home/ab2bb14c/fullerfasteners.com/html/wp-includes/media.php on line 71
- #61061 PHP Warning with invalid JSON input
- #61067 WordPress Categories and Tags pages are not loading 500 internal server error
- #61068 Wrong processing post_status for custom post_status
- #61075 Unmodified Twenty Twenty-Four Theme Layout Breaks on Mobile
- #61084 getDate JS error when opening post
- #61093 Bulk Action ‘Send password reset’ on site-users.php isnt coded
Patch Testing 🩹
Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment.
Why? It is necessary to apply proposed patches and test per the testing instructions in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue.
The following tickets have been reviewed and a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:
- #52354 Twenty Twenty-One: primary menu disappears at 481px
- #38474 wp_signups.activation_key stores activation keys in plain text
- #59688 Add descriptions to patterns in bundled themes
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.
- #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
- #59195 deprecation notice triggered in post.php by passing null to parameter #2 in preg_match()
- #37287 wp_print_admin_notice_templates() does not use _n*() for plural forms
- #60293 Twenty Fourteen: Table block does not have same design in editor and front.
- #59493 Bundled themes: remove blank CSS lines
- #60645 Add pre-fire hook for cron
- #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
- #49787 Twenty Nineteen: Highlight text color isn’t reflected in the editor
- #61082 Twenty Twenty-One: Font size difference between editor & frontend in Latest Comments block
- #57472 Twenty Twelve: Pullquote block alignment issue from incorrect margin in editor
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop for quality and backward compatibility.
The following 6.6 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
6.5.3 Related issues need testing
The following 6.5.3 tickets need testing those are having patches:
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Summary of Hallway Hangout on what’s next in Gutenberg.
- An update for the 6.6 release squad has been posted.
- WordPress 6.5 retrospective post has been published, please fill in the survey if you would like to leave feedback or suggestions for improvements to the release process.
- 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/ 18.2 is ready and available for download!
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
May 2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 30 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
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