Week in Test: October 6, 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.

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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 posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:

• Call for Testing: Accordion Block
• 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:
  • Actively developed for 6.9. See #66377
  • Several existing issues have already been reported. See #71774
• Call for Testing: Ability to Hide Blocks
• Help test changes to template management

Call for Test Table Lead for WC Islamabad

• WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Islamabad is happening on 18 – 19 October 2025, with Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. on the 18th. They’re looking for an online table lead for Testing to guide their local community and they’re open to connecting over Zoom/Google Meet. If anyone from the team is interested, please comment on this post or reply on channel.

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Bi-Weekly update: Test Team Update

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

Did you know that contributions to 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.

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:

• #62715 – Block Hooks: Apply to content-like Custom Post Types
• #63962 – PHP 8.5: Fix deprecation notices for __sleep and __wakeup magic methods
• #63858 – Trigger the wp_cron action from the shutdown hook instead of the init hook to reduce TTFB (⏱️ Time To First Byte) and improve performance 📈
• #63821 – Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
• #57987 – Introduce new `wp_word_count` function

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/preface.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:

• #63878 – Backport: add support for text inputs on the elements API

6.9 Related issues need testing

The following 6.9 tickets need testing, those are having patches:

• #62715 – Block Hooks: Apply to content-like Custom Post Types
• #63962 – PHP 8.5: Fix deprecation notices for __sleep and __wakeup magic methods
• #63858 – Trigger the wp_cron action from the shutdown hook instead of the init hook to reduce TTFB (⏱️ Time To First Byte) and improve performance 📈
• #63821 – Proposal: Drop support for IE conditional scripts and styles
• #57987 – Introduce new `wp_word_count` function

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

No Badges Issues this Week

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• Gutenberg 21.8RC is now available.
• Notes from the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Committer meeting at WCUS 2025 are now available.
• Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.9
• WordPress 6.9 is planned for December 2, 2025, with 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 beginning October 21

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.

2025 Schedule:

• Wednesday, 08 October 2025 at 17:00 GMT+3 :  <test-chat> in #core-test..
• Thursday, 09 October 2025 at 18:00 GMT+3 :  <patch-testing-scrub> 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.

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