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Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update:
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:
- #63949 wp-cron.php should use SNI
- #63951 Page Template setting lost and reverted to Default
- #63964 Twenty Twenty-Five: Rendering issues in Fira Sans font (requires update)
- #63963 Twenty Fifteen: Rendering issues in Noto font (requires update)
- #63968 Theme 2025 on wordpress.com using voice over on apple phone the primary menu does not open
- #63971 Multiple select elements associated with tables in the admin (filters, user role changes) lack visible, persistent labels
- #63972 Bulk actions status messages not announced by screen readers
- #63973 Add Media Button missing aria-haspopup and aria-controls
- #63974 .mo file loaded as UTF-8 by default – non-standard and ignoring Content-Type headers
- #63970 Disabled .handle-actions button receives keyboard focus
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:
- #60628 Issues with avif image imagecreatefromavif not working. Resizing not possible.
- #16839 Category Base Should be Slugified
- #63943 Post Passwords over 255 are not controlled in Quick Edit, nor reported Server Level.
- #63821 Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
- #49661 mails, Howdy, wp_mail() and filters spreading
- #62468 wp_update_post overwrites post_date when updating post_status
- #61097 Filter `wp_count_posts()` query before execution to avoid slow query
- #25840 Feature Request: WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS as option
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:
- #50002 Hack in get_sample_permalink() can cause filters like post_link, and pre_post_link to have inaccurate post_status in admin
- #52737 Allow 301 redirect on _wp_old_slug to be filterable
6.9 Related issues need testing
The following 6.9 tickets need testing those are having patches:
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Test Team Reps: Submit Your Votes (2025–2026)
- 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/ 21.6 is ready to download. Check what is new in Gutenberg 21.6 - Prettier Emails: Supporting Inline Embedded Images
- What’s new for developers? (September 2025)
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