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:
- Help test WordPress 6.6 – We are currently looking for volunteers who can help us in testing the upcoming version.
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.6 – Join these bug scrubs to work on tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets.
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 24 June 2024
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:
- #61461 The pagination results in the Popular Plugins screen is broken
- #61455 wp_kses & block parser being used on pre_term_name hook
- #61469 Display name doesn’t update correctly when first and last name fields are cleared.
- #61474 Twenty Nineteen : Latest Post Block Text Color is not working When Full Post Content Option is selected
- #61476 mediaelement.js fails to rewind audio file when forwarding audio with AirPlay from iPhone to Mac
- #61475 Globally Font Family changes are removed on switching the theme from Twenty Twenty-Two to Twenty Twenty- Four
- #61478 Twenty Twenty-One : Excerpt Block “Read More” text color is not showing on frontend
- #61479 Warnings when use remove_menu_page() with a non exist page.
- #61466 Block Bindings: Add support for image caption
- #61482 WordPress is adding rel=”noopener” to code in normal texteditor
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:
- #60374 Twenty Sixteen: Navigation block inherits colors from button styles
- #59521 Issue with update_post_thumbnail_cache if using get_posts
- #58902 add_query_arg() should esc_url_raw() REQUEST_URI
- #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
- #42670 Symlinked plugin makes plugin_basename function return wrong basename
- #31354 Compound settings confusing with screen readers (checkboxes)
- #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.
- #39703 wp-signup.php & wp-activate.php are doing an avoidable posts query
- #39630 PDF Thumbnails in Media Library Don’t Fall Back to Full Size
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #53323 Place Hello Dolly in containing folder
- #32597 mediaelement.js high CPU usage triggered by the buffering CSS animation
- #61154 Fix the ‘attributes’ dynamic property in WP_Block
- #60666 Unwanted section appears as a sidebar in ‘Create gallery’ section
- #60937 Twenty Seventeen: Button block font weight does not change when using block Appearance setting
- #48734 Twenty Twenty: [em] tag with blank string inside ruins theme layout
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #50317 Twenty-Twenty: Image Block Caption alignment is not centered on mobile version
- #61100 ‘Change role’ field on wp-admin/network/site-users.php?id=xxx contains a bug
- #45993 Twenty Nineteen: Image aligncenter inside column is broken
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 6.6 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
6.6 Related issues need testing
The following 6.6 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #59521 Issue with update_post_thumbnail_cache if using get_posts
- #58902 add_query_arg() should esc_url_raw() REQUEST_URI
- #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
- #42670 Symlinked plugin makes plugin_basename function return wrong basename
- #39630 PDF Thumbnails in Media Library Don’t Fall Back to Full Size
- #60783 plugins_api() and parameters
- #32597 mediaelement.js high CPU usage triggered by the buffering CSS animation
- #60666 Unwanted section appears as a sidebar in ‘Create gallery’ section
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #50317 Twenty-Twenty: Image Block Caption alignment is not centered on mobile version
- #61100 ‘Change role’ field on wp-admin/network/site-users.php?id=xxx contains a bug
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.6 Beta 3 was released on June 18! Thank you to all the contributors for a successful release. Please continue to test and report any issues you find.
- WordPress 6.6 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. will be released tomorrow June 25, at 16:00 UTC, Please join the release party in #core slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel.
- 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/ 18.6 is scheduled for release on June 19. This release will not be included in WordPress 6.6. - Episode 82: WCEU Hallway Track
- Data Liberation and WordPress Migrations
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
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2024 Schedule:
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