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 features need special attention:
- Accordion Block: See PR: 64119
- 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:
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:
- #63991 Incorrect quotation mark character used at the end of the search results title
- #63993 wp_ajax_wp_remove_post_lock does not remove a post lock
- #63997 wptexturize incorrectly escapes attribute quotes after encountering greater-than sign
- #63998 Undefined variable warnings in WP Class
- #64006 Usermeta not stored for super-admin
- #64007 Update Google Fonts collection for 6.9 release
- #64001 Large user data set causes very slow load/pagination/search in the user list
- #63990 `Tests_Media::test_quality_with_avif_conversion_file_sizes` sometimes runs with GD
- #64010 wp_die() status code Media component updates (parent ticket: #64009)
- #64011 wp_die() status code Menus component updates (parent ticket: #64009)
- #64013 Color contrast below WCAG standards for newly-added items in customizer menus
- #64009 wp_die() status code global updates (parent ticket)
- #64023 wp_die() status code Options component updates (parent ticket: #64009)
- #64024 wp_die() status code Plugins component updates (parent ticket: #64009)
- #64025 wp_die() status code posts component updates (parent ticket: #64009)
- #64021 wp_die() status code Network and Sites component updates (parent ticket: #64009)
- #64012 Avoid counting post editor admin inline comments alongside user comments
- #64015 Reconsider removal of import map polyfill
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:
- #63256 Unnecessary array_map() call in get_terms() when object_ids is not set
- #63486 Script modules should support being printed in the footer the same as classic scripts
- #63045 Add caching to `count_many_users_posts()`
- #63531 Category dropdown does not meet WCAG 2.2 A on windows and some linux systems
- #63987 wp_get_scheduled_event() incorrectly returns false for cron events scheduled with a timestamp of 0.
- #63821 Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
- #62468 wp_update_post overwrites post_date when updating post_status
- #35099 Make the filter links (Mine, Status, Author, Taxonomy, etc.) links in the posts list table filterable
- #30128 Allow to use associative arrays beside indexed arrays in wp_mail $headers
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:
- #63656 get_page_by_path $post_type supports string and array but the check in the loop is checking by string
6.9 Related issues need testing
The following 6.9 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #63256 Unnecessary array_map() call in get_terms() when object_ids is not set
- #63486 Script modules should support being printed in the footer the same as classic scripts
- #63045 Add caching to `count_many_users_posts()`
- #63531 Category dropdown does not meet WCAG 2.2 A on windows and some linux systems
- #63987 wp_get_scheduled_event() incorrectly returns false for cron events scheduled with a timestamp of 0.
- #63821 Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- To facilitate the development and testing of the Block Commenting feature, @wildworks has created a plugin to bulk insert multiple block comments. Please feel free to use it if you need it.
- 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/ 21.7.0 RC1 is now available for testing. - Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
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2025 Schedule:
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