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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: 12 February 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:
- 60440 Fix limitation on tags/categories.
- #60445 We created a button and the website does not work and we cant log into wp admin for the website
- #60448 Iframe from `$errmsg` is now removed from error message in the plugins page
- #60450 Button component is missing has-text class when text prop is used
- #60455 HTML API: Trigger active format reconstruction when reaching text nodes.
- #60464 Shortcode in Patterns -> Template Parts -> General -> An item in it.
- #60468 WP_Query matches any post when query parameter “name” is an empty string
- #60458 WordPress6.5-alpha Font upload fails.
- #60475 Possible incorrect type for $comment_id in get_comment_author filter
- #60482 Password Protected stops working
- #60484 Twenty Twenty-Two: The quote block border width is thin on the editor side as compared to the front end.
- #60477 Remove commented out code in wp-includes
- #60486 Theme Export: Update the way we replace the version number.
- #60459 Twenty Twenty-Four: Low button color contrast in the Ember theme style
- #60492 Gallery crashes if images have caption.
- #60494 The loading icon does not show correctly when installing the plugin
- #60496 Twenty Sixteen: visual and DOM order of elements in the footer mismatch
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, a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:
- #48823 Collect all REST API meta errors at once
- #55358 Passing int term term_exists parent param not respected
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #22239 wp_ob_end_flush_all() tries to destroy non-destroyable output buffers
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #57336 Escape missing URLs and HTML element content in wp-activate.php
- #45714 Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard
- #17379 Filtered exports drop attachments and featured images
- #60435 Footnotes Icon not showing for TT4 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.3 and Safari 17.3
- #60471 Plugin dependencies: Dependent of an inactive plugin can be deleted via bulk actions
- #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
- #60461 Running the install script shows database error after plugin dependencies changeset
- #40331 The placeholder attribute should not be used as a replacement for a label
- #59688 Add descriptions to patterns in bundled themes
- #59704 Bundled themes: harden fonts URL code for PHP 8.1
- #58169 Twenty Nineteen: Quote block having issue when font-size is selected
- #58901 Flush ‘user_activation_key’ after successfully login
- #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
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 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #18408 Can’t wp_reset_postdata after custom WP_Query in an admin edit page
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
- #17904 Multisite has more restrictions on user login character set
- #59774 Undefined array key when using wp_list_pluck function
6.5 Related issues need testing
The following 6.5 tickets need testing those have patches:
- #48823 Collect all REST API meta errors at once
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #58087 Fix the ‘data’ dynamic property in WP_Term
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #57336 Escape missing URLs and HTML element content in wp-activate.php
- #45714 Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard
- #56780 shortcode block in block-based template part in a classic theme does not get expanded
- #17379 Filtered exports drop attachments and featured images
- #60435 Footnotes Icon not showing for TT4 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.3 and Safari 17.3
- #60471 Plugin dependencies: Dependent of an inactive plugin can be deleted via bulk actions
- #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
- #60461 Running the install script shows database error after plugin dependencies changeset
- #40331 The placeholder attribute should not be used as a replacement for a label
- #59688 Add descriptions to patterns in bundled themes
- #59704 Bundled themes: harden fonts URL code for PHP 8.1
- #59693 Twenty Fifteen: Apostrophe overlaps with other characters
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