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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:
- #63662 DateTimePicker in the post editor does not show posts that are published on midnight of first day of month
- #63659 Adding the “order” or “orderby” query argument to the front page causes the latest news to be displayed
- #63656 get_page_by_path $post_type supports string and array but the check in the loop is checking by string
- #63666 Multiple tags in URL broken in 6.8
- #63667 Delete oEmbed postmeta if the related embed block is deleted / no longer present in the content
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:
- #39077 Navigation menu items should be defined as being hierarchical
- #28821 Admin page registered with add_menu_page() allows access through wrong URls and hightlights wrong top level menu item
- #13822 Menu items that get unpublished still appear
- #10931 Verify Comment Email Addresses of Registered Users
- #63589 Unable to live preview changes to Additional CSS in the Customizer when using a Block Theme
- #22330 Optimize regexes to remove protocol from URL
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:
- #60111 Twenty Twenty-One: Dark mode toggle script loaded twice in frontend
- #32017 Fix class name typo from ‘hndle’ to ‘handle’
- #46963 Comments meta box offset bug for custom comment types
- #52976 user emails comparison should be case insensitive
- #49369 redirect_canonical() should strip trailing protocols
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.8.2 is underway.
- 6.8.2 RC1 release party is scheduled for Tuesday 8 July at 15:00 UTC.
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- Proposal: Remove the “beta support” label from PHP 8.3 for WordPress 6.8
- A Month in Core – June 2025
- Proposal: Clarifying Core’s Database Support Policy
- Proposal: Introduce Maintenance Mode For Components
- All you need to know about WordCamp US 2025
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Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 09 July 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
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