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Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 5 August 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:
- #61792 PHP warning `Undefined array key “widget_id”` in legacy widget
- #61796 Blank Page When $_GET[‘postId’] Does Not Exist in /wp-admin/site-editor.php
- #61795 Lighthouse shows invalid ARIA role error for role=”group”
- #61797 Sometimes show Critical error when I click “plugins” Manu
- #61815 WordPress Admin Scroll Issue
- #61817 wptexturize(): Hyphen may be replaced with ndash
- #61818 Add Template modal in Mobile Safari has layout issues – WP 6.6
- #61821 Website is Down
- #61798 Not possible to assign author to unowned post in the primary edit form
- #61824 Pages no longer allowed to have same permalink as images
- #61806 twemoji is always loaded on Windows devices
- #61826 Inline Padding Issue with Full-Width (alignfull) child Group in WordPress 6.6
- #61809 Firefox Does Not Recognize MIME Types
- #61827 wp_check_comment_disallowed_list() can’t be used to match unprocessed HTML
- #61823 Link option not showing in Cover Block editor
- #61828 Global Styles: Refactor wp_add_inline_style() to use HTML API
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:
- #36441 Customizer: when setting header image, site icon and logo, do not force the user to crop the image if cropping is not required
- #44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return
- #13459 Conflict between post and page slugs/permalinks when permalink setting is set to /%postname%/
- #61638 Site Health Tool – Directory sizes stuck in loading state in WordPress v6.6 RC3
- #59602 Twenty Fifteen: typography issues in the editor with Table and Calendar blocks and captions
- #61429 Twenty Nineteen: Media & Text Block text color and font size issue on editor side.
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
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 6.7 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #61308 Return `post_types` field in templates REST API
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style
- #61181 Implement a filter to customize output on _block_bindings_post_meta_get_value
- #57379 A Way to Disable Export Theme
6.7 Related issues need testing
The following 6.7 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #36441 Customizer: when setting header image, site icon and logo, do not force the user to crop the image if cropping is not required
- #44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return
- #59602 Twenty Fifteen: typography issues in the editor with Table and Calendar blocks and captions
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- What’s new in Gutenberg 18.9? (31 July)
- We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1.
- The next maintenance release will be 6.6.2. We can dedicate some discussion time to any issues that may need to go into the next maintenance release.
- WordPress 6.6 Performance Improvements
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 13 August 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
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