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:
- Roadmap to 6.8
- Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.8
- Coming soon : Help Test 6.8
Weekly Testing Roundup
Weekly update: Test Team Update:
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
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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:
- #62913 Prevent empty author links in list tables
- #62916 Twenty Twenty: aria-controls & aria-expanded attributes missing from primary menu
- #62918 Twenty Twelve :- Calendar block having issue with font-size in editor and frontend.
- #62919 Block support: Add server-side processing for ariaLabel
- #62920 301 redirect of query URLs
- #62923 Cover with fixed background bug on chromium mobile
- #62925 Non-unique names for inputs in nav-menu
- #62927 Customizer > Additional CSS page – CodeMirror linting not working
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:
- #13459 Conflict between post and page slugs/permalinks when permalink setting is set to /%postname%/
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #39242 Add caching to count_user_posts()
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 for quality and backward compatibility.
The following tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #13459 Conflict between post and page slugs/permalinks when permalink setting is set to /%postname%/
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #57789 Make theme.json related caches persistent
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #39242 Add caching to count_user_posts()
6.8 Related issues need testing
The following 6.8 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #62550 Missing “submit” button – bad accessibility
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #39242 Add caching to count_user_posts()
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Read/Watch/Listen
- Next major release: 6.8
- Check what to expect in WordPress 6.8 release: Roadmap to 6.8
- WordPress 6.7.2 RC2 is now available
- WordPress 6.7.2 is scheduled for February 11
- Review the next minor release milestone
- Gutenberg 20.2 was released last week. Check out the following issues.
- What’s new in Gutenberg 20.1 and 20.2?
- Read more about Contributor day and what to prepare : Core Test Team at WCAsia 2025: Contributor Day
Upcoming Meetings
There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 12 Febrary 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 19 February 2025 at 21:30 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.
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