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:
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
- Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5
- Gutenberg 17.8 release is planned for Feb 28, 2024. Please help test.
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 26 February 2024
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:
- #60576 Unable to change contact email
- #60583 Custom Fields: Two options are displayed by default
- #60585 Recursion in WP_REST_Posts_Controller schema
- #60586 .xml imports broken
- #60579 Notice: Undefined index: name in /wp-includes/class-wp-roles.php on line 293
- #60594 WordPress multisite setup redirect too many times
- #60615 Gutenberg > Typography > Font > Manage Font : While fetching the the fonts, the loader is not alight in the centre. It should have equal top bottom spacing.
- #60618 REST API: Meta update fails if unrelated unchanged field is a multi-item array
- #60620 Twenty Twenty-Four: Remove pattern from home template to improve performance
- #60605 Font face resolver: If a font family name is repeated across theme.json origins only the font faces from one origin are rendered.
- #60624 Permalinks corrupted
- #60621 Twenty Nineteen: Search block lacks styling in the editor
- #60629 PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: gmdate(): Argument #2 ($timestamp) must be of type ?int, string given in wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php:1025
- #60631 block_core_navigation_render_inner_blocks block taxonomy type is ‘tag’, should be ‘post_tag’
- #60572 block_core_navigation_render_inner_blocks loses caret for parent items
- #60623 Richtext : “multiline=p” property is not working in latest WP version
- #60632 The focus outline of the “Upload files” button is cut off
- #60626 Font Files do not export/import properly via XML/WXR exporter.
- #60616 Twenty Twenty-Four: There is shaking effect while selecting Maelstrom style
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:
- #60520 Update `precommit:emoji` following GitHub’s deprecation of SVN support.
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #54516 Full site editing/REST-API: modify permission checks to use post type.
- #58763 Inconsistent add/get/update/delete_post_meta() functions leads to deleting post metadata.
- #18408 Can’t wp_reset_postdata after custom WP_Query in an admin edit page
- #59922 Twenty Nineteen is using CSS selectors that are no longer used in the editor
- #42670 Symlinked plugin makes plugin_basename function return wrong basename
- #42002 Improve the accordions accessibility
- #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #49950 Twenty Twenty (1.2) Horizontal menu – Submenu
- #43904 Media toolbar spacing inconsistent across views
- #51358 Add a clearer warning message before deleting a site from a network
- #32728 Customizer Menus: Accessibility: reordering menu items should have some indication about the item level
- #55991 Twenty Twenty One: Unable to change size in Quote block
- #39281 Twenty Seventeen: header.php forces thumbnails on all post types
- #39703 wp-signup.php & wp-activate.php are doing an avoidable posts query
- #60435 Footnotes Icon not showing for TT4 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.3 and Safari 17.3
- #32295 Pagination on preview/scheduled posts
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #58183 PHP notice when accessing Customizer with a classic theme without widgets
- #59121 Issue with bulk edit checkbox selection in the post table list.
- #55974 Theme-specific border color options for Pullquote block
- #27914 Information about image is jumping in media modal
- #58164 Background overlay on theme page has layout issues
- #40331 The placeholder attribute should not be used as a replacement for a label
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:
6.5 Related issues need testing
The following 6.5 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #60520 Update `precommit:emoji` following GitHub’s deprecation of SVN support.
- #59922 Twenty Nineteen is using CSS selectors that are no longer used in the editor
- #42670 Symlinked plugin makes plugin_basename function return wrong basename
- #42002 Improve the accordions accessibility
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #43904 Media toolbar spacing inconsistent across views
- #32728 Customizer Menus: Accessibility: reordering menu items should have some indication about the item level
- #59121 Issue with bulk edit checkbox selection in the post table list.
- #27914 Information about image is jumping in media modal
- #58164 Background overlay on theme page has layout issues
- #60335 Twenty Twenty-Four: FAQ Pattern creates accessibility issues
- #40331 The placeholder attribute should not be used as a replacement for a label
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
Test Contributor badge awarded to the following WordPress users:
Congratulations: @krupajnanda
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.5 adds AVIF support
- Recap Hallway Hangout: What’s next for the outreach program?
- WordPress 6.5 Beta 2 was released on February 20, 2024. Thanks to everyone involved and who came to help test.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 27 February 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Tuesday, 5 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
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