WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 12.9 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. You can sign up for our TestFlight program (open the link on your iPhone or iPad) to join as a beta tester.

Bugs & Feedback

If you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing, you can let us know in the comments, or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” one of us in the #mobile room on WordPress.org Slack, or head straight 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and open an issue—please see Where to Report below.

What to Test

1. Be offline, go to Blog Posts > Published or Drafts, tap the “Create Post” button, you should see a save draft option when exiting and the post should then be created as a draft and queued for upload. (12023)
2. 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. editor: add a video block to a post and try to break it. (1150)
3. Block editor: open any post with the block editor, tap on the empty editor area, a new paragraph block should be added. (1200)
4. Block editor: open a post with at least one block in the content area, tap the Title, add any block, make sure the new block is added at the top of the post. (1201)
5. Block editor: open a post with at least one block in the content area, make sure no block is selected, add any block, check that a new block should be added to the bottom of the post. (1201)
6. Block editor: open a post with at least one block in the content area, make sure an existing block is selected, add any block, see that a new block is added below the previously selected block. (1201)
7. Block editor: on the web, create a group block as described at 1206 or use the sample content noted in 1209 then open the post in the app and make sure no content is lost.
8. Go to Blog Posts and observe there is a new compact layout option. Try to find any problems you can with the Blog Posts screen. (12087)
9. Go to Blog Posts and check that the post list matches the mockups in 11646. (12087)
10. Go to My Sites > Switch Site > “+” (at top right) > “Create WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ site”, follow the prompts until you see a site preview, make sure you can scroll all the way down to the bottom of the site and the “Done” button doesn’t block the site view. (12052)
11. Go to My Sites > Switch Site > “+” (at top right) > “Create WordPress.com site”, accept help when offered assistance, in “Customize Your Site” tap “Upload a site icon” and make sure it behaves well. Try it multiple times in a row. (12051)
12. Using a very poor network connection, go to Blog Posts > Published, open a post, update it, tap “Preview”, you should see “Generating Preview” in the nav bar. Make sure you can exit the editor and perform other actions. After exiting, the nav bar in the editor should go back to its previous state and no longer say “Generating Preview”. (12031)

You can more details about updates to version 12.9 in the related PRs targeting 12.9 and 1.9.

Where to Report

• WordPress-iOS on GitHub for non-block-editor issues.
• gutenberg-mobile on GitHub for block editor issues.
• This post for questions, feedback, or issues you’re not sure how to report in GitHub.

Thanks for testing! ❤️

#12-9, #call-for-testing, #ios, #mobile

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 12.7 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. You can sign up for our TestFlight program (open the link on your iPhone or iPad) to join as a beta tester.

Bugs & Feedback

If you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing, you can discuss it here, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” one of us in the #mobile room on WordPress.org Slack, or head straight 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and open an issue—please see Where to Report below.

What to Test

1. Go to Me > App Settings > Use 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. Editor to enable 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/ Mobile for testing on new posts. Posts created using Gutenberg on the web should open in Gutenberg on the app regardless of what is selected in App Settings.
2. Block Editor: create and publish post using all of the available blocks (Paragraph, Heading, Image, Lists, Separator, Page Break, Video, Quote, More) and check that each one works as expected.
3. Block Editor: add a video block and try to break it. (687)
4. Block Editor: add a quote block and try to break it. (207)
5. Block Editor: add a more block and try to break it. (859)
6. Block Editor: copy text with attributes (bold, italic, etc.) from another app (e.g. Notes), paste it into a text block (paragraph/list/quote), attributes should not be lost. (1097)
7. Block Editor: check that the default body text in text blocks (paragraphs/lists/quotes) are now using the updated color scheme: gray-900 for text and blue-500 for links. (1086)
8. Block Editor: add a list block, try to use the indent and outdent buttons and see if they work correctly, try to delete list items and see if it works correctly. (991)
9. Block Editor: try the testings steps at gutenberg-mobile/issues/874.
10. Post Settings: go offline, go to Posts, open a post, go to Post Settings, try to set a featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts., and verify the app lets you do that even when offline. (11895)

Find all other changes/fixes in the related PRs targeting 12.7 and 1.7.

Where to Report

• WordPress-iOS on GitHub for non-block-editor issues.
• gutenberg-mobile on GitHub for block editor issues.
• This post for questions, feedback, or issues you’re not sure how to report in GitHub.

Thanks for testing! ❤️

#12-7, #call-for-testing, #ios, #mobile

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 12.6 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. is available for testing on TestFlight. You can sign up for our TestFlight program (open the link on your iPhone or iPad) to join as a beta tester.

Bugs & Feedback

If you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing, you can discuss it here, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” one of us in the #mobile room on WordPress.org Slack, or head straight 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and open an issue—please see Where to Report below.

Please pay extra attention to testing Stats Refresh for this release! 🙏

What to Test

To prepare:

• Go to Me > App Settings > Use 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. Editor to enable 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/ Mobile for testing on new posts. Posts created using Gutenberg on the web should open in Gutenberg on the app regardless of what is selected in App Settings.

To test:

1. Block Editor: create and publish post using all of the available blocks (Paragraph, Heading, Image, Lists, Separator, Page Break) and check that each one works as expected.
2. Stats Refresh: test using a non-English device language (including RTL).
3. Stats Refresh: test Stats on a brand new site.
4. Stats Refresh: test Stats on a site with a lot of traffic.
5. Stats Refresh: make sure cells animate as expected when expanding/collapsing them.
6. Stats Refresh: when a different time period is selected, ensure all modules are updated as expected. This includes switching between Days, Weeks, Months, Years but also choosing a specific day/week/month/year in the graph.
7. Stats Refresh: check that the data returned in stats graphs match the data returned in other modules.
8. Stats Refresh: check that all types of data are returned for each module (e.g. all post types are returned for Posts & Pages).
9. Stats Refresh: check that the “View All” option appears when/where expected and leads to the expected screen. Be sure to test with the current time period (e.g. current day) and past time periods (e.g. previous day).
10. Stats Refresh: tap on a post or page to go to the post/page stats detail.
11. Stats Refresh: tap on a referrer or click and verify the links open properly.
12. Stats Refresh: change the dates displayed using the date bar at the top of Days/Weeks/Months/Years and on individual posts.
13. Stats Refresh: check the Views per day for Insights > Latest Post Summary then tap View more to go to individual posts stats.
14. Block Editor: on the web add a block with invalid content—or this sample content—then open the post in the app and verify blocks with invalid content says “Problem displaying block”. (1021)
15. Block Editor: create and publish a new post with a link set to “Open in New Tab” in the block editor. Close and re-open the link settings and verify the setting is still correct. (1030)
16. Share 4 or more images to the share extension and publish. (11780)
17. Share a TextBundle that includes 4+ images (from Bear, likely). (11780)
18. Go to Site Settings > Site Title and change the Web Address to something custom (other than the domain) and delete the Site Title. Go to Account Settings > Primary Site and verify it is not empty and the domain is displayed (instead of the Web Address). (11803)
19. Go to Me > App Settings > About WordPress for iOS and verify Acknowledgements is present. Does anything look amiss? (11776)
20. Turn on airplane mode, go to comments, reply to a comment, verify you see a snack bar message saying “There has been an unexpected error while sending your reply.” (11817)

Find all other changes/fixes in the related PRs targeting 12.6 and 1.6.

Where to Report

• WordPress-iOS on GitHub for non-block-editor issues.
• gutenberg-mobile on GitHub for block editor issues.
• This post for questions, feedback, especially anything stats-related!, or issues you’re not sure how to report in GitHub.

Thanks for testing! ❤️

#12-6, #call-for-testing, #ios, #mobile

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 12.5 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. is available for testing on TestFlight.

Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program (open the link on your iPhone or iPad) to join as a beta tester.

Release Notes

• Fixed Notices sometimes showing behind the keyboard.
• Implemented auto saving a post on preview.
• The app now launches a bit more quickly.
• Fixed a crash for Reader comments with multiple gifs.

What to Test

1. Notices. (11632)
   1. Go to Blog Posts, tap Search to trigger keyboard, go offline, pull to refresh. You should see an offline notice appear.
2. Autosave before Preview on published posts. (11638)
   1. On a WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ blog, make a change to a previously published post and ensure you can see the change in a preview.
3. Reader comments with multiple gifs. (11698)
   1. Find some posts with lots of comments and like them. (1, 2)
      In the app, go to Reader > My Likes.
      Tap to view comments for one of the liked posts.
      Quickly scroll the list.
      Repeat until you crash the app.
4. 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/ Mobile (1.5)
   1. Go to Me > App Settings > Use 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. Editor to enable Gutenberg Mobile for testing on new posts. Posts created using Gutenberg on the web should open in Gutenberg on the app regardless of what is selected in App Settings.
   2. Create and publish post using all of the available blocks (Paragraph, Heading, Image, Lists, Separator, Page Break) and check that each one works as expected.
   3. Add an image with a centered caption that contains rich text such as bold, italic, link, and strikethrough. (941)

Find all other changes/fixes in the related PRs targeting 12.5 and 1.5.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” one of us in the #mobile room on WordPress.org Slack, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue or the Gutenberg Mobile repository to open a new issue for the block editor.

Thanks for testing!

#12-5, #call-for-testing, #ios, #mobile

WordPress for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. version 12.3 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. is available for testing on TestFlight.

Not part of the beta program yet? Please sign up for our TestFlight program (open the link on your iPhone or iPad) to join as a beta tester.

Release Notes

• Love apps like iA Writer, 1Writer, Bear, and Ulysses? Move from app to WordPress draft fast — the app now imports images from TextBundle and TextPack files and supports importing Markdown files, too.
• Notifications for internet connectivity problems no longer eat up your entire device screen. Now there’s a small popup instead, so you can keep using offline abilities (like deleting posts, which now happens more reliably if you’re offline). 
• Some text in Activity Log would sometimes show up in a wrong language. Not useful! And now fixed.
• Also not useful: crashes. Crashes that sometimes occurred during site creation or when loading stats are resolved.
• Jetpack Remote Install is supported, so you can install and activate Jetpack on a self-hosted site right from the app.
• Stats are more accessible — if you use voiceover in the app, it’ll read your stats to you.
• Sharing extension build settings had to be rebuilt for the Xcode 10.2 transition so we should test sharing from the app out to other places.

What to Test

These are some more granular testing steps based on the pull requests that correspond with the release notes. Please pick any that you are interested in!

1. Update writing apps such as Bear or Ulysses to export using TextBundle or Text Pack.
2. Share content with images from the writing app to the WordPress app. (11500)
3. Share markdown content from the writing app to the WordPress app. (11500)
4. Be offline and delete a post from the post list. Small offline notice should appear. (11481)
5. Be offline and go to Sharing. Small offline notice should appear.(11452)
6. Be offline and go to Sharing > Manage then leave. No alert should be shown if no changes were made. (11312)
7. Be offline and go to Themes. Make sure labels are not being displayed if the “no results view” is presented. (11464)
8. Be offline and go to “View Site.” See snack bar if OS 11.0+. (11441)
9. Change device language to non-English, go to Activity Log, verify text is localized. (11479)
10. Go to My Sites > + and complete the site creation steps to try to trigger a crash.
11. Browse through stats to try to trigger a crash.
12. Add a self-hosted site with no Jetpack installed, go to Stats, tap “Install Jetpack” and complete the steps. (11501)
13. Turn on VoiceOver, go to Stats, chart bars date and value should be read out. (11478)
14. Go to Stats for individual posts—tap the post title to open a webview. (11499) ← removing this because it’s behind a feature flag and should not have been added yet, sorry about that!

Find all other changes/fixes in the related PRs targeting 12.3.

Bugs & Feedback

Did you find a bug or come up with a feature request while testing? You can discuss it here, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” one of us in the #mobile room on WordPress.org Slack, report it using the TestFlight feedback link, or head straight to the iOS GitHub repository and open a new issue.

Thanks for testing!

#12-3, #call-for-testing, #ios, #mobile