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:
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:
- #63682 wp_send_user_request() incorrect type for $request_id in phpdoc
- #63684 ‘edit_user’ capability returns true for user_id = 0 when logged out.
- #63687 While navigating menu from Add User to any menu it asking for changes but did not add anything.
- #63693 wp_should_load_block_assets_on_demand doing it wrong too early
- #63695 viewStyle is loaded in the footer when the active theme is the classic theme
- #63689 [Bug] My Sites dashboard layout doesn’t adapt to long site names
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:
- #22330 Optimize regexes to remove protocol from URL
- #13822 Menu items that get unpublished still appear
- #63589 Unable to live preview changes to Additional CSS in the Customizer when using a Block Theme
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:
- #63633 Post Types with numeric characters in the slug are not searchable within the nav menu
- #63656 get_page_by_path $post_type supports string and array but the check in the loop is checking by string
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- The final 6.8.2 release is scheduled for this coming Tuesday, July 15th
- What’s new for developers? (July 2025)
- Proposal: Introduce Maintenance Mode For Components
- WordPress 6.9 is gearing up, and the call for volunteers is open!
- WordPress Playground now connects with the internet by default
- Signup to attend WCUS Contributors day
- Participate in SummerPhotoContest
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 16 Julyy 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>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.