On Wednesday, 22 January 2026, 03:01 PM UTC, <test-chat> started in #core-test facilitated by @juanmaguitar. The agenda can be found here.
1. Attendance
In attendance was:
@juanmaguitar @nikunj8866 @sirlouen @mosescursor @ozgursar @pavanpatil1 @sajib1223 @r1k0 @mohkatz @fakhriaz @alexcu21 @huzaifaalmesbah
2. Volunteer
This week’s facilitator was @juanmaguitar
This week’s Note-taker was @juanmaguitar
3. Test Team Discussions
“beta 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. testers” for the new Test Contributor Pathway course
@sirlouen announced that the Test Contributor Pathway course will be launching on the Learn site in the coming weeks. The team is looking for beta testers to review the videos and provide feedback. Community members interested should contact @sirlouen directly for private access.
Creating a new page in the handbook with a “template” for Test Chats
The team discussed creating documentation for facilitating test chat meetings. @sirlouen explained the goal is to document templates and guidance so anyone can run a test chat. @juanmaguitar noted he’s currently following steps from a previous meeting.
Contributors can submit pull requests to the test-handbook GitHub repository, or open issues with ideas if a full PR feels too daunting.
Add labels to posts that are regularly posted on make.wordpress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org//test
@juanmaguitar proposed adding consistent tags (week-in-test, test-chat-summary, test-chat-agenda) to recurring posts to improve discoverability, similar to Gutenberg posts. See full suggestion in Slack.
The discussion focused on tags vs categories. The main advantage of tags is they persist when duplicating posts or using templates, while categories can be forgotten. However, categories are prominently displayed in the sidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme.. @mosescursor noted the “Kibble” default category The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. is misconfigured.
@juanmaguitar will open a GitHub 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/ issue (#109) to continue the discussion. The topic requires more thinking and will be revisited once there’s more consensus.
Call for help, building the Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. bot for core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
@sirlouen requested help building a Slack bot for Core testing announcements, similar to the existing Gutenberg announcer. The goal is to automatically notify #core-test whenever a needs-testing tag is added to a Core ticket.
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. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. scripts that interact with Trac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. already exist at meta.trac.wordpress.org. More details are available in Trac ticket #8157. @juanmaguitar expressed interest in helping with this.
4. Open Floor
No items were raised during the open floor.
5. Announcements
WordPress Ecosystem Announcements
Test Team Announcements
Call for Testing
6. Other Meetings
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