The Test Team helps manage testing and triage across the WordPress ecosystem. They focus on user testing of the editing experience and WordPress dashboard, replicating and documenting bug reports, and supporting a culture of review and triage across the project.
If you’d like to help test Full Site Editing, please join the FSE Outreach Program. You can find current calls for testing for this program here and you can join the fun in #fse-outreach-experiment.
The team gathers in #core-test. Please drop by any time with questions or to help out.
If you already have hosting setup for a site you own, consider asking your web host how to add an additional site in a subdomain or subfolder for testing purposes. Each host may have different options, and they should be able to help advise you.
If you have a small budget to work with, setting up additional hosting to use for testing is helpful because it also helps to diversify tests in varying different environments.
Use this option to do general testing with the latest betaBetaA 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. or release candidateRelease CandidateA beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. versions of the GutenbergGutenbergThe 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/ editor:
Go to WP Admin > Plugins > Add New > Upload PluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
Select the file from step 2.
Follow the prompts to install and activate the plugin.