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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:
- #56024: Removing an image caption removes its alignment.
- #56038 and #55581: Aligned image width not consistent between editor and frontend.
- #56052:
WP_List_Table extended class causes PHP 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. notice.
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:
- #52294: Twenty Twenty-One: Editor style fix for RTL languages.
- #55606: Add
wp_after_tag_search filter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output.. Ready for testing. - #28620:
wp_nav_menu last level items have .menu-item-has-children even when child menus are not displayed.
And back for an encore performance:
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 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:
- #10249 (related: #17450 and #45897: Page slugs with non-ASCII characters result in 404 error.
- #17851: Add abiltity to wrap sections created with
add_settings_section(). Also needs patch testing. - #55877: Have
wp_insert_post() check if post type exists. Also has patch feedback.
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Meetings This Week 🗓
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