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 📣
- Coming soon!
- 6.8 Roadmap
- Help Test 6.8
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 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:
- #62828 Array should not be passed to get_page_by_path()
- #62835 Remove title attributes from author link functions
- #62849 Rename the “setted_transient” action to “set_transient”.
- #62856 Changing the author of a post in the author selector is impossible
- #62867 I cannot access my site
- #62868 strong/bold does not work on p block of a 2025 theme (Win Firefox only)
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:
- #61890 Handle WP_Term dynamic properties for PHP 8.2
- #37332 Enhancement: Add a wrong password message on password protected posts
- #61942 Add “no-store” to Cache-Control header to prevent unexpected cache behavior
- #61154 Fix the ‘attributes’ dynamic property in WP_Block
- #62378 Allow patterns files to be divided into sub folders inside the main “patterns” folder
- #62534 Pagination broken in admin for categories / tags / plugins
- #21022 Use bcrypt for password hashing; updating old hashes
- #37040 Enhancement: new function to validate a transient exists, and isn’t expired without extra query
- #61765 Twenty Twelve: The large quote pattern does not use a quote block
- #18836 ORDER BY RAND() is slow
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:
- #13459 Conflict between post and page slugs/permalinks when permalink setting is set to /%postname%/
- #59440 WP_Comments_List_Table bulk actions do not account for user permissions.
6.8 Related issues need testing
The following 6.8 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #37332 Enhancement: Add a wrong password message on password protected posts
- #61942 Add “no-store” to Cache-Control header to prevent unexpected cache behavior
- #61154 Fix the ‘attributes’ dynamic property in WP_Block
- #62378 Allow patterns files to be divided into sub folders inside the main “patterns” folder
- #21022 Use bcrypt for password hashing; updating old hashes
- #43936 Settings: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged
- #37040 Enhancement: new function to validate a transient exists, and isn’t expired without extra query
- #61765 Twenty Twelve: The large quote pattern does not use a quote block
- #18836 ORDER BY RAND() is slow
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Next maintenance release: 6.7.2 The release plan is published and checkout the milestone here.
- GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc.
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 20.1 was released which includes these issues. - A new post is out on WordPress Developer Blog : One hook to rule them all: The many faces of block categories
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 29 January 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 05 February 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
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