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:
- Call for Testing: Accordion Block
- Collaboration: add block-level comments:
- Call for Testing: Ability to Hide Blocks
- Help test changes to template management
Call for Test Table Lead for WC Islamabad
- WordCamp Islamabad is happening on 18 – 19 October 2025, with Contributor Day on the 18th. They’re looking for an online table lead for Testing to guide their local community and they’re open to connecting over Zoom/Google Meet. If anyone from the team is interested, please comment on this post or reply on channel.
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.
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:
- #62715 – Block Hooks: Apply to content-like Custom Post Types
- #63962 – PHP 8.5: Fix deprecation notices for __sleep and __wakeup magic methods
- #63858 – Trigger the wp_cron action from the shutdown hook instead of the init hook to reduce TTFB (⏱️ Time To First Byte) and improve performance 📈
- #63821 – Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
- #57987 – Introduce new `wp_word_count` function
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or PHP developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loop for quality and backward compatibility.
The following tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
6.9 Related issues need testing
The following 6.9 tickets need testing, those are having patches:
- #62715 – Block Hooks: Apply to content-like Custom Post Types
- #63962 – PHP 8.5: Fix deprecation notices for __sleep and __wakeup magic methods
- #63858 – Trigger the wp_cron action from the shutdown hook instead of the init hook to reduce TTFB (⏱️ Time To First Byte) and improve performance 📈
- #63821 – Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
- #57987 – Introduce new `wp_word_count` function
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
No Badges Issues this Week
Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Gutenberg 21.8RC is now available.
- Notes from the Core Committer meeting at WCUS 2025 are now available.
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9
- WordPress 6.9 is planned for December 2, 2025, with Beta 1 beginning October 21
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 08 October 2025 at 17:00 GMT+3 : <test-chat> in #core-test..
- Thursday, 09 October 2025 at 18:00 GMT+3 : <patch-testing-scrub> in #core-test..
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.
Props to @sirlouen @nikunj8866 @krupajnanda for helping review this article and offering feedback