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Week in Test: October 20, 2025

Week in Test: October 20, 2025

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.

Jump to: Calls for Testing |Test Handbook | Weekly Testing Roundup | WordPress Core Testing | Gutenberg Testing | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

  • Collaboration: add blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.-level comments:

Test Handbook 📘

It’s Time to Review the Test Handbook in GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/

For the last few weeks, a good amount of test contributors have embarked on the journey of reviewing our new Test Handbook based on Github. We still need more members to join, because we must make sure, that every single page is reviewed at least 2 or 3 times to avoid missing anything. If you want to join us, please write in the #core-test chat in 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/, and we will help you get on the process.

Here are the handbook Pull requests that need reviews before merging and here are the pending Issues of the [MIRROR] Project for review.

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Bi-Weekly update: Test Team Update

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions. Did you know that contributions to 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.

1. WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Testing

a. 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:

b. 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:

c. 6.9 Related issues need testing

The following 6.9 tickets need testing, those are having patches:

2. 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/ Testing

👋 Want to contribute to WordPress/gutenberg? If you have a bug or an idea, read the contributing guidelines before opening an issue. If you’re ready to tackle some open issues, we’ve collected some good first issues for you.

a. Gutenberg Bug Reproduction Testing

The following tickets have been filed reporting a known bug and needs testers to manually test, then provide feedback through a bug reproduction report that the issue can be reproduced.

b. Gutenberg Patch Testing

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:

  • Nothing to test yet this week

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

No Badges Issues this Week.
Badge awarding has been paused until the Test Handbook migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. is complete. Keep contributing and we will get to you

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.

2025 Schedule:

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.

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Props to @sirlouen @nikunj8866 for helping review this article and offering feedback

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