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:
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 28 April 2025
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:
- #63332 wp_editor_settings filter hook not working as expected in WordPress Admin
- #63334 `switch_to_locale()` overwrites custom object types for core taxonomies
- #63338 Image distortion since WordPress 6.8, previously correct image now blurry
- #63330 PHP deprecated error in meta.php on line 1298
- #63342 wp-admin/options.php page crashes when options or cache data are too large
- #63341 siteurl and home fields not disabled in wp-admin/options.php when defined in wp-config.php
- #63344 Twenty Seventeen: Inconsistent Search Block Input Padding
- #63350 Twenty Fourteen :- The Search block design appears misaligned when the button inside is enabled.
- #63348 Missing “Create Date” on Draft Products
- #63347 Twenty Fourteen: Table and Calendar blocks do not apply font size from user settings
- #63351 Incorrect usage of esc_attr() for URL escaping
- #63353 Invalid type false for permalink_structure property
- #63365 Sticky Posts Appear at the Top of Every Page in the Query Loop Block
- #63361 Remove unnecessary semicolon form switch case in atomlib.php file
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:
- #60770 TimeZone select box compatibility with RTL directions
- #63135 Testing and Debugging WP_Mail related topics
- #58836 Remove IE specific checks from more default themes
- #54346 Slow SQL queries fetching posts from specific categories
- #51006 Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core
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 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- Same as above
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.8.1 Release Schedule
- WordPress 6.8.1 RC1 is now available
- Call for 6.8.x Release Managers
- WordPress 6.9 Development Cycle
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
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