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.
Jump to: Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
Did you know that contributions to the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? Dive in to contribute, and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.
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:
- #63838 Site logo block should provide a way to specify alt text
- #63847 Twenty Twenty One :- Quote block does not adjust width for inner block in the editor when it has Full or Wide width.
- #63859 Ugly modal showing up after the session expires
- #63860 Twenty Twenty – Pullquote block having design issue when alignment is used.
- #63862 Gallery images prevent main product image from displaying in some cases
- #63871 Media library does not respect the filter’s already selected when coming back to the media library page
- #63872 Calendar block highlights past date and current date in draft/preview/published post.
- #63873 Calendar Block > Date text color styling not applied in Block Editor on Pages
- #63874 Calendar Block > Background color not applied in Block Editor on Pages
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:
- #63805 Extend the existing conditional loading optimization for block-specific global styles from core blocks to include third-party blocks, improving performance by only loading styles for blocks actually present on the page.
- #33972 static use of PHPMailer class results in stale state between calls to wp_mail()
- #63842 Emoji detection inline script introduces needless parser/render blocking
- #63831 Adjust sizing of page header links on mobile viewports
- #57987 Introduce new `wp_word_count` function
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:
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
Profile badge is awarded to @getsyash!
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Core Test Team at WCUS 2025 Contributor Day
- Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations
- Announcing the WordPress 6.9 Release Squad
- Roadmap to 6.9
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 29 January 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 05 February 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>? Test Team needs you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.