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:

• There are currently 15 open tickets in the 6.5.3 release milestone. There is more information about this release in this post, including the bug scrub schedule and how you can get involved.
• 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/ 18.2 is scheduled for April 24 and will include these issues.

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

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.

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:

• #61011 Plugin management: The “Install Now/Activate” button should be a button not a link
• #61012 The mobile layout displays incorrectly when infinite scrolling is activated in the Media Gallery Modal.
• #61015 Having Inline SVG breaks the site
• #61016 Menu Vanishing On Save
• #61017 page_for_posts is automatically reset
• #61018 Block editor color selector displays incorrect color information
• #61022 Twenty Eleven: “Follow Blog” pattern has black text on black background
• #61027 Twenty Twenty-One: Replace front-end JS with Interactivity API
• #61029 Multisite state ‘Delete’ can only have a value of 1or 0. Not 2. So why is 2 mentioned in the code?
• #61030 Reduce font-size of Credits page h1 element for smaller screens
• #61042 Twenty Fifteen Group block color setting not applied to pullquote block.
• #61044 Interactivity API: Debug – Warning about Server Directives Processing errors.
• #61032 List item blocks displays unexpected or invalid content error

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:

• #59493 Bundled themes: remove blank CSS lines
• #49950 Twenty Twenty: with horizontal menu, submenu should be dismissible
• #60435 Twenty Twenty-Four: Footnotes Icon not showing on Mac OS Sonoma 14.3 and Safari 17.3
• #39253 Twenty Seventeen: Head Image Quality Issue
• #56441 Pull quote block border issue in different themes.
• #52294 add_editor_style: Allow replacing a style with an RTL version
• #60645 Add pre-fire hook for cron
• #60479 Remove adminbar skiplink focus fix
• #7813 export function does not preserve encoding
• #60835 Fix and improve handling of uploading of font files
• #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.
• #59402 Plugin cannot be uninstalled if uninstall crashes

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.6 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
• #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
• #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
• #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• Learn more about How WordPress Is Creating a Faster Web
• Episode 77: Let’s Talk About Data Liberation – everything you need to know about
• Merge Proposal: Rollback Auto-Update
• We are currently in the WordPress 6.6 release cycle. The deadline for leaving feedback on this Planning Proposal post has ended, and we expect a release squad to be announced soon. Please leave a comment if you have any updates to share about this.
• WordPress 6.5.3: An upcoming maintenance release
• Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 30 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> 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.

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.

Jump to: Calls for Testing | Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

• Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme.
• There are currently 13 open tickets in the 6.5.3 release milestone.
• 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/ 18.2 is scheduled for April 24 and will include these issues.

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 15 April 2024

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.

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:

• #60963 Custom query, inherit main query, show scheduled posts
• #60964 Coding Standards: Fix missing strict in_array on global-styles-and-settings.php
• #60976 register_block_type not working with Oxygen
• #60979 safecss_filter_attr() should support query strings with “&” as used by Gutenberg
• #60983 wp update 6.5 and 6.5.2 rewrite multisite bdd entries wp_options.siteurl and wp_options.home
• #60984 WP_Query is returning the two same post instead of one
• #60994 Github bot detected some high risk security issue in npm packages.
• #60972 Clicking twice on a plug-in update deletes the plug-in.
• #61004 Twenty Twelve: typo correction(s) in block pattern
• #61007 Shortcode aren’t paste inline in paragraphs
• #60981 6.5 adds the “is-layout-constrained” class to the wrong place for classic themes
• #60992 Plugin management: AJAX plugin activation consequences

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:

• #55974 Bundled theme: Add support for border options
• #56153 Query loop block with full width and having template of image, title and date has full width issue in editor side in twenty twenty theme.
• #60424 Twenty Fifteen Table block having different design in editor and frontend.
• #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
• #59712 `WP_Ugrader` doesn’t check source and destination variable types, is missing a string.
• #56441 Pull quote block border issue in different themes.
• #59043 the_excerpt() function return excerpt with different length in page load and ajax request on WordPress 6.3
• #56695 Twenty Eleven: Pullquote block ignores font weight and style settings
• #60664 Twenty Nineteen: Avatar block size is different in the editor and front
• #58024 Twenty Twenty: button block link does not inherit custom letter spacing
• #60724 TT2: Wrap Navigation block in Row within the header.html template part
• #53564 Twenty Twenty-One: Consider adding block-templates support
• #60645 Add pre-fire hook for cron
• #52694 Twenty Twenty-One: Primary menu toggle filter adds toggles to third party menu locations

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.6 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
• #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.
• #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
• #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
• #45197 Introduce `user_can_for_blog()`
• #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
• #50163 Perform a canonical redirect when paginated states of the front page are not found
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML

6.6 Related issues need testing

The following 6.6 tickets need testing those have patches:

• #53167 upload_filetypes should map to get_allowed_mime_types
• #59712 `WP_Ugrader` doesn’t check source and destination variable types, is missing a string.
• #59043 the_excerpt() function return excerpt with different length in page load and ajax request on WordPress 6.3
• #60479 Remove adminbar skiplink focus fix
• #58024 Twenty Twenty: button block link does not inherit custom letter spacing
• #60724 TT2: Wrap Navigation block in Row within the header.html template part
• #60645 Add pre-fire hook for cron
• #52694 Twenty Twenty-One: Primary menu toggle filter adds toggles to third party menu locations

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• WordPress 6.5 Release Retrospective
• WordPress 6.5.2 Maintenance and Security Release was released on Tuesday, April 9. WordPress version 6.5.1 could not be released due to a packaging error.
• We are officially in the WordPress 6.6 release cycle.
• Gutenberg 18.1 was released on April 10 and included these issues.

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

April 2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> 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.

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.

Jump to: Calls for Testing | Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

• Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme.
• We also already have quite a few tickets targeted for the 6.5.1 milestone, Please do help if you can.
• The next 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/ release will be 18.1, scheduled for release on April 10, and will include these issues.

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 8 April 2024

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

Did you know that contributing to the Test Team is also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? 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 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:

• #60877 Twenty Twenty-Four: Many block styles affect all blocks
• #60882 Footer On Codex website showing in one column.
• #60887 After upgrade to WordPress 6.4.3, do_shortcode no longer works in page templates
• #60880 Twenty Nineteen: paragraph does not inherit font size from parent block within the editor
• #60892 About Page: `text-wrap: balance;`adds unintended new lines in Japaneese
• #60905 PHP Deprecated messages in class-automatic-upgrader-skin.php
• #60899 CTA Button Alignment Not Working
• #60897 Image Title, Caption issue
• #60911 WordPress requires Host in the header
• #60916 Menu link validation
• #60918 parse_blocks stopped returning content and text in attrs in 6.5
• #60919 Accessibility issue in WordPress adminbar
• #60925 defect (bug): WP 6.5 | function “multisite_over_quota_message” not found or invalid function name
• #60929 Deprecated notice: the_block_template_skip_link()
• #60903 Theme.json for navigation
• #60922 get_custom_logo returns an empty link when no logo image is set
• #60902 WordPress don’t create additional sizes for AVIF image files uploaded
• #60878 We need to add trim validation on Add New Category name
• #60937 Twenty Seventeen: Button block appreance is not changing when we trying to change using block setting.
• #60941 When post and page have same title then post redirect to page
• #60933 Twenty Twenty-Four Theme > Site Editor Image Upload To Media Library Not working (loading)
• #60945 “Quick Edit” in Posts and Pages doesn’t work in 6.5
• #60947 calling get_post_type_object in wp-admin/includes/post.php may return null
• #60948 shortcodes that return with no value / text will break if shortcode is being used as an attribute value
• #60951 Preview for templates page two not openable
• #60952 Completely broken out of the box: can’t edit “hello world” post, lots of errors in browser console in wp-admin
• #60956 Incorrect copy-paste behavior in the header
• #60957 Install fonts in Font Library in WP 6.5 not working on multisite using Twenty Twenty-four
• #60958 How to put older order to a created new registration account
• #60960 Choosing to h5 & h6; Font size capitalize display & font size also change. Please fix it. ( As compare to h1 to h4 tag )

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:

• #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus
• #49950 Twenty Twenty (1.2) Horizontal menu – Submenu
• #60780 Twenty Twenty :- Button block having issue with letter spacing
• #59402 Plugin cannot be uninstalled if uninstall crashes
• #51358 Add a clearer warning message before deleting a site from a network
• #22239 wp_ob_end_flush_all() tries to destroy non-destroyable output buffers
• #46215 Twenty Nineteen: Aligning table to center not working on front end
• #55660 Twenty Twenty Two: Empty index.php breaks bbPress; consider including generic template loop?
• #53564 Twenty Twenty-One: Consider adding block-templates support
• #55948 Twenty Twenty: Not able to change the Text size or Color for Add citation in Gutenberg Quote block
• #60293 Twenty Fourteen: Table block does not have same design in editor and front.
• #52551 Twenty Twenty-One: Search box alignment
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.6 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• #60291 Support Lossless WebP in WP_Image_Editor_GD
• #60299 Default assignment of `use_ssl` user meta value causes unnecessary DB write.
• #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
• #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
• #45197 Introduce `user_can_for_blog()`
• #60158 The description field for media doesn’t automatically make paragraphs in the generated code
• #50163 Perform a canonical redirect when paginated states of the front page are not found
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML

6.6 Related issues need testing

The following 6.6 tickets need testing those have patches:

• #58087 Fix the ‘data’ dynamic property in WP_Term
• #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus
• #49950 Twenty Twenty (1.2) Horizontal menu – Submenu
• #60780 Twenty Twenty :- Button block having issue with letter spacing
• #45944 Twenty Nineteen: Added URL in :after styles for print.css is unreliable
• #59402 Plugin cannot be uninstalled if uninstall crashes
• #51358 Add a clearer warning message before deleting a site from a network
• #60293 Twenty Fourteen: Table block does not have same design in editor and front.
• #52551 Twenty Twenty-One: Search box alignment
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #42002 Improve the accordions accessibility

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• WordPress 6.5 “Regina” was released on April 2. Thank you to everyone who worked on, tested, and supported this release.
• We are officially in the WordPress 6.6 release cycle. @priethor published this WordPress 6.6 Planning Proposal & Call for Volunteers post last week. Please take note of the following callouts on that post:
  • Please leave your feedback about the schedule and release squad size in the comments by April 7th.
  • If you are interested in participating in WordPress 6.6’s release squad as a lead or as a cohort, please show interest in the comments, specifying the role and the type of involvement (lead/cohort).
• Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> 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.

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 the Test Team in #core-test.

Jump to: Calls for Testing | Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

• Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme
• Gutenberg 18.0 RC 2 is now available for testing
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
• Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
• Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 1 April 2024

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

Did you know that contributions with 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.

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:

• #60839 WordPress issue > WordPress 6.5 RC3 and 6.4.3, crop feature not working: Invalid Paramter
• #60855 wp_mkdir_p can error when simultaneous requests attempt to create the same directory
• #60849 Meta is saved twice in auto-draft mode
• #60858 Getting Error While updating page which was implemented by Gutenberg
• #60864 URL sanitizing strips valid characters instead of encoding, documented use is invalid
• #60869 Error processing checkout. Please try again.
• #60868 Persistence layer tries to make a REST API call to ‘/wp/v2/users/me’ when user is not logged in
• #60871 Sign releases (PGP, GPG)

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:

• #60724 TT2: Wrap Navigation block in Row within the header.html template part
• #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
• #50026 Twenty Twenty: Full height with short content

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• No 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit testing right now.

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

No Badges awarded this week.

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• WordPress 6.6 Planning Proposal & Call for Volunteers – If you are interested in joining the release squad, please leave a comment in the post.
• Recap Hallway Hangout: Using Site editor in production for client sites
• Providing more clarity in the Gutenberg GitHub Repo
• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 4
• WordPress 6.5 will be released on April 2, 2024.

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> 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.

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.

Jump to: Calls for Testing | Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

• Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme
• Active tickets slated for the next WP 6.5 release
• 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/ 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues.
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
• Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
• Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 25 March 2024

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

Did you know that contributions with 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.

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:

• #60807 Twenty Twenty theme List block have spacing difference in editor and front end.
• #60806 Remove query alteration from build_comment_query_vars_from_block
• #60826 Fix incorrect use of add_theme_support( ‘editor-style(s)’ )
• #60831 Investigate flakey `Tests_Admin_wpSiteHealth ::test_object_cache_thresholds()` test
• #60832 add_meta_box breaks on plugin sub-pages if add_menu_page has dynamic title
• #60839 WordPress issue > WordPress 6.5 RC3 and 6.4.3, crop feature not working: Invalid Paramter
• #60844 Cover block not working correctly when changing thep aspect ratio

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:

• #60479 Remove adminbar skiplink focus fix
• #59043 the_excerpt() function return excerpt with different length in page load and ajax request on WordPress 6.3
• #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
• #60815 Regression with theme.json `settings.shadow.defaultPresets`

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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.

No 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit testing right now.

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• WordPress 6.5 release delayed 1 week to accommodate the new Font library feature
  • Font Library update: storage of font files
• WordPress 6.5 Release Day Process will now be released on April 2, 2024. Dry run will start 24 hours prior to the scheduled release.
• Next Gutenberg release: 18.0
• WordPress 6.5 Field Guide

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.

Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>The test team need you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.

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.

Jump to: Calls for Testing | Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
• Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
• Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 11 March 2024

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.

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:

• #60695 Links in the admin-menu are generated incorrectly for mu-plugins
• #60710 save_post_{$post->post_type} hook returns inconsistent $_POST[‘tax_input’] format
• #60714 Vertical alignment icon missing 6.5-RC1
• #60721 redirect_canonical suddenly causes issues with paramter values and CDN
• #60722 incorrect display of mail due to outdated version of PHP mailer
• #60724 TT2: Wrap Navigation block in Row within the header.html template part
• #60728 Install/upgrade latest supported version of plugin, when latest version of plugin is not supported
• #60729 YouTube embed start=
• #60716 Font Library:Replace error message “A font face matching those settings already exists” with notice
• #60739 Wrong redirection when installing with URI rewrite
• #60742 Script Modules: Module src not filterable.
• #60708 REST page 2 item 0 === page 1 item 99 when requesting 100 posts from a post type
• #60744 6.5-rc1: ref may be null from getElement() in style bindings
• #60745 WP_Query::parse_query() does not handle invalid query arg values
• #60748 auth_redirect() login check doesn’t exist or doesn’t work
• #60750 Warning: these pages should not be the same as your Privacy Policy page!
• #60752 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘WpOrg\Requests\Hooks’ not found
• #60753 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class “wpdb” not found in load.php

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, a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:

• #49950 Twenty Twenty (1.2) Horizontal menu – Submenu
• #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus
• #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
• #60740 wp_mime_type_icon function fails to return non-SVG icons

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• No ticket has been available for the PHPUnit Test in the past weeks.

6.5 Related issues need testing

The following 6.5 tickets need testing those have patches:

#60740 wp_mime_type_icon function fails to return non-SVG icons

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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• WordPress 6.5 Release Candidate 1 last week on March 5.
• Highlights from WordCamp Asia 2024 – 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. Asia was in Taipei, Taiwan. Here, you can check the quick summary.
• Recap of Core Test team at Contributors Day WCAsia – we had a great contributors’ day at WordCamp Asia, and you can check out the summary here.
• Miscellaneous Editor changes in WordPress 6.5
• Josepha shared about Unblocking WP6.5 – Font Library and Synced Pattern Overrides. give it a read.
• Gutenberg 17.9 is scheduled for release on March 13 and will include these issues.

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 19 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> in #core-test.

Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>The test Team needs you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.

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.

Jump to: Calls for Testing | Weekly Testing Roundup | Profile Badge Awards | Read/Watch/Listen | Upcoming Meetings

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:

• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
• Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
• Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
• Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Weekly update: Test Team Update: 4 March 2024

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.

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:

• #60650 sanitize_locale_name() should reject non-strings
• #60654 Install several formats of the same font one by one is not possible
• #60657 wp_schedule_event problem
• #60659 get_subdirectory_reserved_name bypass on mutlisite
• #60666 Unwanted section appears as a sidebar in ‘Create gallery’ section
• #60671 If you hook some blocks with Block Hooks API, slashes are stripped from template part block attributes
• #60664 Twenty Nineteen: Avatar block size is different in the editor and front
• #60677 Docs: Add missing @global tag and adjust tag position
• #60680 Site’s broken
• #60681 Elements: Fix application of element class name when attributes are filtered

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:

• #42670 Symlinked plugin makes plugin_basename function return wrong basename
• #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
• #60578 When plugin upload fails, add a link to return to plugin installer page
• #60236 Customizer’s Widget’s component should only be loaded when not using a Block Theme
• #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
• #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
• #58164 Background overlay on theme page has layout issues
• #59712 `WP_Ugrader` doesn’t check source and destination variable types, is missing a string.
• #55974 Bundled theme: Add support for border options
• #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
• #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus

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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:

• No tickets have been available from the past 1 week

6.5 Related issues need testing

The following 6.5 tickets need testing those have patches:

• #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
• #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

No Badges awarded this week.

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

• Core Test Team at WCAsia 2024
• WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
• What’s new in Gutenberg 17.8? (28 February)
• Updates to Block Hooks in 6.5
• Summary of Hallway Hangout on overlapping problems in the Site Editor
• Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about WordPress Playground

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.

March 2024 Schedule:

• Tuesday, 5 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-triage> in #core-test.
• Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30: <test-chat> 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.