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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:
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 3 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:
- #61317 Customizer load wrong page for customizing the “Page”.
- #61338 wpdb::prepare function null value convert to empty String
- #61335 block_editor_rest_api_preload function is restoring $wp_scripts and styles enqueued by wp_enqueue_media are lost
- #61347 Swapping templates hangs site
- #61349 Slideshare embeds returning a 404 error
- #61346 Dashicons are not available in Tablet and Mobile view in the Block editor
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:
- #36710 Symlinked directories should not be deleted recursively
- #49787 Twenty Nineteen: Highlight text color isn’t reflected in the editor
- #60293 Twenty Fourteen: Table block does not have same design in editor and front.
- #59602 Twenty Fifteen: Table block having issue with font-size in editor side.
- #60424 Twenty Fifteen: fix Table block’s Stripes style
- #37040 Enhancement: new function to validate a transient exists, and isn’t expired without extra query
- #58479 Add notice if no posts are selected in Bulk Edit
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #52696 Add a way to determine whether a translation exists
- #61287 Twenty Sixteen : Code Block Background color is not reflecting in frontend
- #40415 Imagick resize filter hook
- #27914 Information about image is jumping in media modal
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #60374 Twenty Sixteen: Navigation block inherits colors from button styles
- #61264 Move default rendering mode setting to block_editor_settings_all hook in PHP to allow customizing it
- #61260 Rollback Auto-update: Automatic update of translations can cause confusion
- #61168 Bulk select issue with with All select
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #61154 Fix the ‘attributes’ dynamic property in WP_Block
- #60236 Customizer’s Widget’s component should only be loaded when not using a Block Theme
- #47111 Dynamically added notifications need ARIA role alert or status
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
- #59802 Twenty Fifteen: Quote block citation text color does not change with block setting
- #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
- #55974 Bundled theme: Add support for border options
- #60495 Following “plugins_list”: Add a filter in get_views() in class-wp-plugins-list-table
- #45197 Introduce `user_can_for_blog()`
- #52294 add_editor_style: Allow replacing a style with an RTL version
- #61265 Add class name for block variations
- #22239 wp_ob_end_flush_all() tries to destroy non-destroyable output buffers
- #31354 Compound settings confusing with screen readers (checkboxes)
- #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
- #60673 Indicate submenu item level in admin nav menu editor and customizer nav menu editor
- #52694 Twenty Twenty-One: Primary menu toggle filter adds toggles to third party menu locations
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:
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
- #61113 WP_REST_Templates_Revisions_Controller not checking parent ID correctly
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
6.6 Related issues need testing
The following 6.6 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #61265 Add class name for block variations
- #31354 Compound settings confusing with screen readers (checkboxes)
- #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
- #60673 Indicate submenu item level in admin nav menu editor and customizer nav menu editor
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- 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/ 18.5 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. was released on May 31 and included these issues. - WordPress 6.5.4 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing, and final release is scheduled for June 5.
- The scheduled date for WordPress 6.6 Beta 1 is June 4. From then on, we will focus on testing and fixing bugs discovered during betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. testing. Begin writing Dev Notes and the About page.
- WordCamp Europe 2024: Mid-Year Update and Q&A with Matt Mullenweg
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
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2024 Schedule:
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