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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:
- #63751 wpdb->set_prefix() throws deprecation notice for preg_match() when setup-config.php is loaded
- #63754 Application password with REST API fails when logged in (Unauthorized), works when logged out — Regression from WP 6.8.2
- #63749 Twenty Twenty: Pullquote block border color does not support theme palette
- #63750 Twenty Twenty: Quote block does not adjust width for inner block in the editor when it has both text alignment and Full or Wide width
- #63756 Undefined array key “slug” in /wp-includes/class-wp-theme-json.php on line 3264
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:
- #62715 Block Hooks: Apply to content-like Custom Post Types
- #63714 Missing width/height attributes on SVG file since WP 6.8.2
- #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:
- #45033 Add TIDAL to oEmbed whitelist
- #28473 wp_mail incorrectly parses multiline From header
- #59263 Twenty Nineteen: File block does not respect center alignment setting
- #31992 Unicode Email Addresses
- #46963 Comments meta box offset bug for custom comment types
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Introducing the WordPress Test Contributors Group
- First WordPress Quality Analysis Report
- Building the Testing Use-Case
- Gutenberg 21.3 RC1 is released and the final release is scheduled for Wednesday the 30th
- WordPress 6.9 is scheduled on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 30 July 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
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