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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.
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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:
- #62985 Fix layout support classes to be generated with a stable ID
- #62988 class-wp-styles.php sends output too early on media-upload.php
- #62984 Find some “global variables” are missing to define into the WordPress core files.
- #62999 plugin not appearing when searched with exact name
- #62998 Deactivate button and search filter on plugin list page
- #63005 Replacing certain bulk-edit fields blocks all bulk edits
- #63009 setup-config errors are not localised
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:
- #44118 WordPress performs some unnecessary plugin update checks
- #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
- #61393 Trailing Slash Issue in Category Pagination URLs with the_posts_pagination()
- #61381 Bulk update plugins no longer working when 1 Plugin failed to update
- #37687 Multisite – Enormous number of update queries during site creation (user roles)
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
- #58934 Twenty Twelve: Table Block does not align center on front end
- #59207 Twenty Thirteen: correct styling for Button & File block links in front-end widget areas (Footer & Sidebar)
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #58836 Remove IE specific checks from more default themes
- #62967 Twenty Twelve: Skip link located after menu button.
- #61154 Fix the ‘attributes’ dynamic property in WP_Block
- #51006 Add a mechanism for accessible tooltips in core
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #62969 Twenty Fourteen: Skip link out of order
- #62968 Twenty Thirteen: Skip link out of order
- #61244 The export_wp() function inserts empty <wp:comment> data when get_comment() returns a false or empty value
- #30705 Add parameter to get_the_term_list() to allow templating
- #62482 Improve text strings in Twenty Twenty-Five
- #62846 Allow direct linking to site health check result
- #21022 Use bcrypt for password hashing; updating old hashes
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:
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6.8 Related issues need testing
The following 6.8 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #44118 WordPress performs some unnecessary plugin update checks
- #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
- #61393 Trailing Slash Issue in Category Pagination URLs with the_posts_pagination()
- #61381 Bulk update plugins no longer working when 1 Plugin failed to update
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #58836 Remove IE specific checks from more default themes
- #60074 Add New Media File > The ”dismiss button ”not showing any response when uploading the unsupported (.jfif) file
- #62967 Twenty Twelve: Skip link located after menu button.
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #62969 Twenty Fourteen: Skip link out of order
- #62968 Twenty Thirteen: Skip link out of order
- #61244 The export_wp() function inserts empty <wp:comment> data when get_comment() returns a false or empty value
- #62482 Improve text strings in Twenty Twenty-Five
- #62846 Allow direct linking to site health check result
- #21022 Use bcrypt for password hashing; updating old hashes
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Shaping Tomorrow at WordCamp Asia 2025
- Report: WordPress in 2025
- WordCamp Asia 2025 Core Committer Meeting Notes
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 05 March 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
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