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:
- 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/ 21.0 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. is released and ready for testing. Please check this changelog for more information.
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
Did you know that contributions with 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:
- #63513 Twenty Twenty-Five: Copy for query loop results is confusing on the home page
- #63522 Warnings related to get_queried_object returning null
- #63531 Category dropdown does not meet WCAG 2.2 A on windows and some linux systems
- #63528 Mouse scroll wheel scrolls whole Post while editing when attempting to scroll through autocomplete pop-up of internal Posts
- #63518 get_blog_details( get_all: false ) not working as expected
- #63540 Dashboard has accessibility issue regarding insufficient contrast ratio.
- #63541 TinyMCE scripts not loaded when WYSIWYG fields are present in metaboxes with Gutenberg enabled
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:
- #41978 `_delete_all_data()` does not delete attachment files
- #60495 Following “plugins_list”: Add a filter in get_views() in class-wp-plugins-list-table
- #17904 Multisite has more restrictions on user login character set
- #56153 Query loop block with full width and having template of image, title and date has full width issue in editor side in twenty twenty theme.
- #42910 Default Post Format doesn’t apply on post created from Quick Draft
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:
- Same as above
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
We are processing the badges to all the eligible contributors who participated and contributed on WCEU Contributors day. Thank you for your patience! 🙇♀️
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WCEU 2025 : Test Team Contributor Day Recap
- WCEU 2025: A Community Celebration in the Swiss Sun
- What’s new in Gutenberg 20.4 and 20.5?
- AI Team has their first meeting and here here is the recap
- The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team is working on a squad for future minor releases. A release squad for 6.8.2 should be announced soon. Follow #6-8-release-leads for updates.
- A Criteria for Creating or Migrating Repositories under the WordPress GitHub Organization was published. Please check it out for guidelines and more.
- Automattic: Open Horizons Scholarship
- Gutenberg 21.0 RC is released.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 18 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>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.