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:
- Roadmap to 6.8
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.8
- Coming soon : Help Test 6.8
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 with 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:
- #62940 wp_mail(): Address header parsing is not RFC-5322 complient and fails on quoted-string when including a “<“, “>” or “,”
- #62950 PHP deprecation warning in /wp-admin/includes/class-automatic-upgrader-skin.php
- #62951 Missing Escaping functionality for Some Variable
- #62956 Featured Image on Covers does not have controls to fix image
- #62946 wp_opcache_invalidate() promises more than it can do
- #62958 Pasting in text into the block editor with emoji breaks the saving
- #62948 Posts tagged with complex Emoji can’t be found
- #62964 WordPress Master-Master Replication Conflicts Caused by Gutenberg Blocks
- #62965 Twenty Ten :- Details block having font-size issue in editor side for hidden text.
- #62966 PHP output of get_comment_delimited_block_content does not match Gutenberg JS output
- #62963 Fatal is_admin_bar_showing() – Call to undefined function is_user_logged_in()
- #62975 Twenty Twenty-Five: Exclude sticky posts when offset is used
- #62976 Multiple queries executing – Bulk deletion
- #62977 Wrong imagesize Twenty-Twenty_Five , WP 6.72
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:
- #39004 Alt attributes should be searchable in media library
- #37040 Enhancement: new function to validate a transient exists, and isn’t expired without extra query
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #53323 Place Hello Dolly in containing folder
- #61393 Trailing Slash Issue in Category Pagination URLs with the_posts_pagination()
- #33821 redirect_canonical does not consider port in $compare_original
- #51006 Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core
- #61765 Twenty Twelve: The large quote pattern does not use a quote block
- #61100 Fix capability error in bulk role removal when editing site users in network admin
- #62967 Twenty Twelve: Skip link located after menu button.
- #62968 Twenty Thirteen: Skip link out of order
- #62969 Twenty Fourteen: Skip link out of order
- #59207 Twenty Thirteen: correct styling for Button & File block links in front-end widget areas (Footer & Sidebar)
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 for WP 6.8 Release need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
6.8 Related issues need testing
The following 6.8 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #37040 Enhancement: new function to validate a transient exists, and isn’t expired without extra query
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #61393 Trailing Slash Issue in Category Pagination URLs with the_posts_pagination()
- #51006 Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core
- #61765 Twenty Twelve: The large quote pattern does not use a quote block
- #61100 Fix capability error in bulk role removal when editing site users in network admin
- #62967 Twenty Twelve: Skip link located after menu button.
- #62968 Twenty Thirteen: Skip link out of order
- #62969 Twenty Fourteen: Skip link out of order
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- We are in 6.8 release cycle
- Check what to expect in WordPress 6.8 release: Roadmap to 6.8
- Report: WordPress in 2025
- WordCamp Asia 2025: Manila Magic
- If you are attending remotely/in-person, check out this post on what to prepare for Contributors day : Core Test Team at WCAsia 2025: Contributor Day
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>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.