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:
- Ticket under 6.8.2 milestone and Gutenberg PR marked as “Backport to WP minor Release.
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:
- #63572 theme.json file variable could be a directory, add check to prevent notices
- #63571 Excessive Spacing Between Right Sidebar Items in Edit Media Screen on Mobile View
- #63585 Common MacOS unicode characters in filenames break
- #63594 Bug/Broken State possible in Multisite Caching Code: update_network_option
- #63580 render_block does not render innerblocks when used explicitly
- #63574 Post Options Divider Missing in Mobile View on Post List Page (WP-Admin) (Playground)
- #63599 Scheduled Posts Occasionally Miss Schedule with Real Cron Setup
- #63590 Youtube oEmbed Test is not loading scripts
- #63598 Post locking takeover dialogue shows when `show_post_locked_dialog` filter returns false
- #63608 Hooked blocks not inserted
- #63611 wp_widget_rss_output: HTML entities that are part of HTML tags should be removed
- #63613 Twenty Twenty-One: menu toggle is not responsive until after “load” event
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:
- #33821 redirect_canonical does not consider port in $compare_original
- #43681 Incorrect HTTP status code in ‘posts’ query.
- #28059 Inline image attachments with wp_mail()
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:
- #63372 Tags page UI inconsistencies when adding or deleting tags
- #63316 [E_WARNING] Undefined array key “host” in wp-includes/canonical.php on line 717
- #63583 Issue when having multiple Audio and/or Video playlists at the same page
- #63553 Administration: Color Schemes are not properly applied on individual attachment within media views
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.8.2 schedule is out!
- All recordings from WordCamp Europe on WordPressTV are available.
- Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6
- Introducing a new SQLite driver for WordPress
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Monday, 23 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<patch-test-scrub>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 25 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test.
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