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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Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 5 August 2024

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.

Did you know that contributions with 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.

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:

• #61792 PHP warning `Undefined array key “widget_id”` in legacy widget
• #61796 Blank Page When $_GET[‘postId’] Does Not Exist in /wp-admin/site-editor.php
• #61795 Lighthouse shows invalid ARIA role error for role=”group”
• #61797 Sometimes show Critical error when I click “plugins” Manu
• #61815 WordPress Admin Scroll Issue
• #61817 wptexturize(): Hyphen may be replaced with ndash
• #61818 Add Template modal in Mobile Safari has layout issues – WP 6.6
• #61821 Website is Down
• #61798 Not possible to assign author to unowned post in the primary edit form
• #61824 Pages no longer allowed to have same permalink as images
• #61806 twemoji is always loaded on Windows devices
• #61826 Inline Padding Issue with Full-Width (alignfull) child Group in WordPress 6.6
• #61809 Firefox Does Not Recognize MIME Types
• #61827 wp_check_comment_disallowed_list() can’t be used to match unprocessed HTML
• #61823 Link option not showing in Cover Block editor
• #61828 Global Styles: Refactor wp_add_inline_style() to use HTML API

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:

• #36441 Customizer: when setting header image, site icon and logo, do not force the user to crop the image if cropping is not required
• #44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return
• #13459 Conflict between post and page slugs/permalinks when permalink setting is set to /%postname%/
• #61638 Site Health Tool – Directory sizes stuck in loading state in WordPress v6.6 RC3
• #59602 Twenty Fifteen: typography issues in the editor with Table and Calendar blocks and captions
• #61429 Twenty Nineteen: Media & Text Block text color and font size issue on editor side.
• #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.7 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #61308 Return `post_types` field in templates REST API
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #44958 &nbsp character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
• #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style
• #61181 Implement a filter to customize output on _block_bindings_post_meta_get_value
• #57379 A Way to Disable Export Theme

6.7 Related issues need testing

The following 6.7 tickets need testing those are having patches:

• #36441 Customizer: when setting header image, site icon and logo, do not force the user to crop the image if cropping is not required
• #44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return
• #59602 Twenty Fifteen: typography issues in the editor with Table and Calendar blocks and captions
• #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• What’s new in Gutenberg 18.9? (31 July)
• We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1.
• The next maintenance release will be 6.6.2. We can dedicate some discussion time to any issues that may need to go into the next maintenance release.
• WordPress 6.6 Performance Improvements

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 13 August 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 20 August 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> 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.

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 | Weekly Testing Roundup | 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:

• Let’s start testing Learn.WordPress.org – The new Learn.WordPress.org is launching soon, complete with four courses in the User and Developer Learning Pathways. Your help is needed to QA/test the new site! Please follow these steps and report any bugs you find. 

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 29 July 2024

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.

Did you know that contributions with 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.

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:

• #61732 get_calendar() will use invalid dates in SQL queries
• #61742 Ensure plugin auto updates are blocked if required WordPress version is not supported
• #61744 preg_match fails when className when $block[‘attrs’][‘className’] is an array *which is case when “extraClasses” is set*
• #61746 WordPress login redirect issue
• #61754 Unused array_merge call?
• #61755 Use WPINC constant in script-loader.php
• #61760 Site needs help
• #61758 Improve speed of AVIF image generation
• #61762 Options can be incorrectly cached following database errors.
• #61772 I saw some bug at undo operation on browser for login credential.
• #61774 Error 403 while adding ‘ to last name on user page
• #61751 Custom post type editor working
• #61776 Background color is not getting updated in block editor which we are setting through theme customization through templates
• #61767 Twenty Twelve: hyphens only on front end for pages and widgets
• #61778 Menu works but submenu not
• #61777 Windows defender Trojan error for wp-includes\dist\block-library\style.min.css
• #61783 All post table UI breaks upon adding multiple taxonomies
• #61784 not able to scroll down on pages or tabs in 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:

• #59602 Twenty Fifteen: typography issues in the editor with Table and Calendar blocks and captions
• #56290 Twenty Twelve: Button blocks inside widget areas don’t apply custom colours
• #49009 Customizer header overlaps top of preview at small screen sizes
• #34353 redirect_canonical() – Undefined indexes ‘host’ and ‘scheme’
• #61638 Site Health Tool – Directory sizes stuck in loading state in WordPress v6.6 RC3
• #44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return
• #36441 Customizer: when setting header image, site icon and logo, do not force the user to crop the image if cropping is not required
• #55974 Bundled theme: Add support for border options
• #59329 Firefox gets “ReferenceError: Â is not defined” in unminified moxie.js
• #61591 Multiple bundled themes: block editor style is added incorrectly
• #50317 Twenty-Twenty: Image Block Caption alignment is not centered on mobile version
• #55975 Twenty Twenty: Pullquote Block font-size issue
• #42598 Twenty Seventeen: Sticky header offset issue
• #61700 Twenty Sixteen: correct Code block font family, line-height and padding in the editor

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.7 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #61308 Return `post_types` field in templates REST API
• #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #44958 &nbsp character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
• #57379 A Way to Disable Export Theme
• #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style
• #61181 Implement a filter to customize output on _block_bindings_post_meta_get_value
• #53645 Convert heic to a web safe image format.

6.7 Related issues need testing

The following 6.7 tickets need testing those are having patches:

• #54738 Unable to upload images with URL over API when the image doesn’t have a filetype in the filename
• #61264 Move default rendering mode setting to block_editor_settings_all hook in PHP to allow customizing it
• #60495 Following “plugins_list”: Add a filter in get_views() in class-wp-plugins-list-table
• #52294 add_editor_style: Allow replacing a style with an RTL version
• #61265 Add class name for block variations
• #61144 Disabling “Post via email” triggers deprecation notices upon save
• #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
• #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
• #59402 Plugin cannot be uninstalled if uninstall crashes
• #58087 Fix the ‘data’ dynamic property in WP_Term
• #59960 Replace em-based `line-height` with unitless values
• #31354 Compound settings confusing with screen readers (checkboxes)
• #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.
• #61154 Fix the ‘attributes’ dynamic property in WP_Block
• #32597 mediaelement.js high CPU usage triggered by the buffering CSS animation
• #58902 add_query_arg() should esc_url_raw() REQUEST_URI
• #59521 Issue with update_post_thumbnail_cache if using get_posts
• #60783 plugins_api() and parameters
• #60261 Fatal error with invalid charset specified in Trackback
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #61117 Guard condition in `delete_temp_backup()` shouldn’t return early
• #56780 shortcode block in block-based template part in a classic theme does not get expanded
• #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
• #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
• #44958 &nbsp character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
• #43936 Settings: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged
• #45714 Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard
• #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
• #45197 Introduce `user_can_for_blog()`
• #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
• #61614 Media: Ensure Imagick quality is set correctly
• #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style
• #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
• #53323 Place Hello Dolly in containing folder
• #59602 Twenty Fifteen: typography issues in the editor with Table and Calendar blocks and captions
• #44921 User nicename discovery is slow to return
• #59329 Firefox gets “ReferenceError: Â is not defined” in unminified moxie.js
• #61765 Twenty Twelve: The large quote pattern does not use a quote block
• #61700 Twenty Sixteen: correct Code block font family, line-height and padding in the editor

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1.
• The next maintenance release will be 6.6.2. We can dedicate some discussion time to any issues that may need to go into the next maintenance release.
• Gutenberg 18.9 is scheduled for July 31.

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 30 July 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 6 August 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> 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.

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 | Weekly Testing Roundup | 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:

• Help test WordPress 6.6 – We are currently looking for volunteers who can help us in testing the upcoming version.
• Let’s start testing Learn.WordPress.org

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 15 July 2024

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.

Did you know that contributions with 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.

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:

• #61600 Import of scheduled posts
• #61602 site health – disk_free_space return error
• #61620 Edited Images don’t include un-edited versions in WXR file, even if used in a Post
• #61621 WP_Query get_posts should be call its property not again execute all caculations
• #61597 Resized images larger in filesize than original, when setting jpeg_quality to 100
• #61631 sanitize_option_{$option} inconsistencies
• #61625 Styles enqueued from block.json are not correctly configured for RTL
• #61634 Bugged Editing Pages
• #61642 Block Bindings: Add context needed by sources during its processing
• #61640 Issues in edit_link Function: Inconsistent Return Values, Insufficient Permission Error Handling, and Data Sanitization
• #61638 Site Health Tool – Directory sizes stuck in loading state in WordPress v6.6 RC3
• #61592 6.6-RC2 Editing/Inserting Synced pattern (reusable block) with server side rendering broken.

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:

• #60374 Twenty Sixteen: Navigation block inherits colors from button styles
• #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
• #45197 Introduce `user_can_for_blog()`
• #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
• #60669 Twenty Twenty-Two: Search block does not show selected border on button
• #61614 Media: Ensure Imagick quality is set correctly
• #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style
• #61633 Twenty Twenty-One: alignment of site title and navigation links
• #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
• #45924 Twenty Nineteen: Consider making the “—” divider in the header translatable.

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.7 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #37454 get_avatar_data() delivers different url for scheme=https and is_ssl()
• #61308 Return `post_types` field in templates REST API
• #58905 Ensure locate_template only loads theme files
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #44958 &nbsp character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
• #57379 A Way to Disable Export Theme
• #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style

6.7 Related issues need testing

The following 6.7 tickets need testing those are having patches:

• #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
• #45197 Introduce `user_can_for_blog()`
• #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
• #61614 Media: Ensure Imagick quality is set correctly
• #52592 PHP warning when the label property is missing from register_block_style
• #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• Next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality.: 6.6
  • WordPress 6.6 RC3 was released on July 9. We are in a hard string freeze. Note that the dev-feedback and dev-reviewed workflow is required prior to committing to the 6.6 branch (handbook reference).
  • WordPress 6.6 Release Day Process, We are currently in the WordPress 6.6 release cycle. WordPress 6.6 is scheduled for Tuesday, July 16. There will be a dry run of the release on Monday, July 15 which starts a 24-hour code freeze of the 6.6 branch.
• Gutenberg 18.8 is scheduled for July 17 and will include these issues. This version will NOT be included in the WordPress 6.6 release and will be included with 6.7.
• Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg (August 2024)
• What would you like to see in the next default WordPress theme?
• WordPress 6.7 Planning Proposal & Call for Volunteers

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 16 July 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 23 July 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> 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.