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:
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 20 May
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:
- #61212 HTML content add while creating new page
- #61215 Getting warning in Hello Dolly Plugin when checking with PHPCS
- #61217 I am finding it really difficult to manage WordPress at the moment
- #61221 Debogage ?
- #61224 Uncaught exception in login form
- #61226 Can’t open add new posts page
- #61210 Custom Template Not working
- #61234 Investigation Request: High Frequency of `hooked_block_types` Filter Calls
- #61237 When Editor becomes an iframe, relative path content is not displayed correctly
- #61223 Date Time and UTC / GTM Timezone is not synchronizing
- #61242 PHP warning when `’taxonomies’` in `register_post_type` is set to `false` instead of `array()`
- #61244 The export_wp() function inserts empty <wp:comment> data when get_comment() returns a false or empty value
- #61229 Twenty Seventeen: “undefined is not an object” in JS detection
- #61246 wp_kses makes HTML comment HTML uncommented
- #61248 Issues with WordPress
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:
- #60664 Twenty Nineteen: Avatar block size is different in the editor and front
- #56455 Twenty Nineteen: Text Color issue in Pullquote Block
- #49787 Twenty Nineteen: Highlight text color isn’t reflected in the editor
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #8592 Private Pages not listed in the Parent dropdown
- #27914 Information about image is jumping in media modal
- #22239 wp_ob_end_flush_all() tries to destroy non-destroyable output buffers
- #61090 Update jQuery UI library to version 1.13.3
- #60499 Duplicate CSS in src/wp-includes/css/media-views.css
- #43936 Settings: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged
- #60673 Indicate submenu item level in admin nav menu editor and customizer nav menu editor
- #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
- #61021 REST API: Add stylesheet_uri and template_uri fields to themes endpoint
- #61052 WP_KSES data attributes: Allow double dash
- #41172 Allow autosaving to be disabled on a per post type basis
- #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
- #53681 Twenty Nineteen: reduce bottom margin for Audio block
- #58440 Twenty Nineteen: Inconsistent H1 font size
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:
- #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
- #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
- #61137 Allow view access of template rest endpoint to anyone with the edit_post capability
- #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
- #61123 Background block supports: add support for top-level styles in theme.json
- #61113 WP_REST_Templates_Revisions_Controller not checking parent ID correctly
6.6 Related issues need testing
The following 6.6 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #40370 add_image_sizes does not create the “crop position” versions of the image
- #58901 Flush ‘user_activation_key’ after successfully login
- #60499 Duplicate CSS in src/wp-includes/css/media-views.css
- #43936 Settings: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged
- #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/ 18.4 is scheduled for release on May 22 and includes these issues. - Recognizing Contributions and Acknowledging Challenges
- Proposal: Server to client data sharing for Script Modules
- WordPress 6.6 release squad ready.
- The Roadmap for the WordPress 6.6 release cycle
- Data Views in the Site Editor
- Zoom-out mode to compose with patterns
- View inherited style values
- Unifying editor experiences, including publish flow
- Mix and match typography and color palettes from all styles variations
- Syncing specific blocks and attributes of patterns
- Expanding block style variations for more styling options
- Improvements to Grid Layout
- Bringing the Site Editor experience for Pattern management to Classic Themes
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 21 May 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Tuesday, 28 February 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
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