Title: Week in Test: September 08, 2025 Author: Krupa Nanda Published: September 8, 2025 Last modified: October 1, 2025 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krupajnanda/) [Krupa Nanda](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krupajnanda/) 6:25 am _on_ September 8, 2025 Tags: [core-test ( 231 )](https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/core-test/) # Week in Test: September 08, 2025 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](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/). Jump to:  [Weekly Testing Roundup](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2025/09/08/week-in-test-sepetmber-08-2025/?output_format=md#weekly-testing-roundup) | [Profile Badge Awards](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2025/09/08/week-in-test-sepetmber-08-2025/?output_format=md#profile-badge-awards) | [Read/Watch/Listen](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2025/09/08/week-in-test-sepetmber-08-2025/?output_format=md#read-watch-listen) | [Upcoming Meetings](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2025/09/08/week-in-test-sepetmber-08-2025/?output_format=md#upcoming-meetings) ## Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠 Weekly update: [Test Team Update](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/tag/test/) Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions. Did you know that contributions to the [Test Team](https://make.wordpress.org/test/) are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skills? 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](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=new&focuses=!docs&time=1weekago..&component=!Build%2FTest+Tools&keywords=~-reporter-feedback+-close+-dev-feedback+-2nd-opinion+-needs-refresh+-needs-design+-needs-design-feedback&milestone=Awaiting+Review&owner=&type=defect+(bug)&col=id&col=summary&col=focuses&col=keywords&col=changetime&order=changetime) are awaiting review and need testers to attempt to **reproduce the reported issue**( aka “repro”), and then provide a [reproduction test report](https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/test-reports/#2-issue-reproduction) with the results: * [**#63906**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63906) [Review and improve reliability of language pack upgrades](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63906) * [**#63918**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63918) [updated_…_meta meta_id is string not int – wrong docs](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63918) * [**#63908**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63908) [Style concatenation may duplicate inline styles](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63908) * [**#63923**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63923) [style-engine: Add string check to prevent fatal errors from malformed block attributes](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63923) * [**#63916**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63916) [Reinstall page advises users to delete their previous database](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63916) * [**#63929**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63929) [WordPress sitemap not indexing correctly when custom post types are used](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63929) * [**#63940**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63940) [Prevent POST flood cache bypass attacks](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63940) * [**#63909**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63909) [Automatic excerpts: support lists in addition to columns and groups](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63909) * [**#63932**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63932) [Investigate failing Imagick tests on PHP 8.3 and 8.4](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63932) ### Patch Testing 🩹 **Who?** All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment. ** Why?** It is necessary to [apply proposed patches](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/patch/) and test per the [testing instructions](https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/test-reports/#1-testing-instructions) in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue. The [following tickets](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&changetime=1weekago..&keywords=~needs-testing+has-patch+-dev-feedback+-2nd-opinion+-close+-needs-refresh+-needs-design+-needs-design-feedback+-changes-requested&milestone=!Awaiting+Review&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=milestone&col=changetime&col=keywords&col=type&col=priority&col=component&order=changetime) 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](https://make.wordpress.org/test/handbook/test-reports/#3-patch-testing): * [**#62468**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62468) [wp_update_post overwrites post_date when updating post_status](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62468) * [**#60628**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60628) [Issues with avif image imagecreatefromavif not working. Resizing not possible.](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60628) * [**#28821**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28821) [Admin page registered with add_menu_page() allows access through wrong URls and hightlights wrong top level menu item](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28821) * [**#63876**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63876) [Certificate verification failure causing PHP 8.3 and 8.4 workflows to fail](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63876) * [**#61097**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61097) [Filter `wp_count_posts()` query before execution to avoid slow query](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61097) * [**#63920**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63920) [get_adjacent_post() has a misplaced check for WP_Error](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63920) * [**#63821**](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63821) [Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63821) ### 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](https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php) developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build [automated PHPUnit tests](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/automated-testing/phpunit/). ** Why?** [Automated tests](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/automated-testing/) 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](https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop) for quality and backward compatibility. The [following tickets](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&changetime=1weekago..&keywords=~needs-testing+has-patch+-dev-feedback+-2nd-opinion+-close+-needs-refresh+-needs-design+-needs-design-feedback+-changes-requested&milestone=Awaiting+Review&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=milestone&col=changetime&col=keywords&col=type&col=priority&col=component&order=changetime) need [PHPUnit tests](https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/automated-testing/writing-phpunit-tests/) built to accompany their respective patches: * [#30430](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30430) [WP_Object_Cache does not properly cache objects nested in arrays](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30430) ### 6.9 Related issues need testing The following 6.9 tickets need testing, those are having patches: * [#63821](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63821) [Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63821) ## Profile Badge Awards 🎉 [@mosescursor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mosescursor/) was assigned a test contributor badge! ## Read/Watch/Listen 🔗 * Last chance to nominate the test team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. : _[Test Team Reps: Call for Nominations](https://make.wordpress.org/test/2025/08/14/test-team-reps-call-for-nominations-5/)_ Voting will begin soon! * 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/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) 21.6 RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. is ready to [download](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/releases/tag/v21.6.0-rc.1). * [Introducing the #content-creators slack channel](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/09/07/introducing-the-content-creators-slack-channel/) * [WordPress 6.9 Development Cycle](https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-9/) ## Upcoming Meetings 🗓 🚨 There will be regular [#core-test](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/) meetings held for 2025. 2025 Schedule: * [Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250910T16&p1=1440&ah=1):` ` in [#core-test](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/). * [Wednesday, 17 September 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250917T16&p1=1440&ah=1):` ` in [#core-test](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/). 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