With WordPress 6.3 due on August 8, 2023, now would be a great time to help test the release candidate, as well as confirm that your plugins and themes are ready for the 6.3 release. In this session we'll be installing the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, convert a local install to WordPress 6.3 for testing, test it against a theme that is in active development, and then revert it back to WordPress 6.2.

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Testing WordPress 6.3
Developer edition
Jonathan Bossenger
Learn.WordPress.org

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👋🏽 Welcome!
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Hello!
○ My name is Jonathan Bossenger
○ From Cape Town, South Africa
○ Developer educator at Automattic
○ Sponsored to work with the Training Team
○ jonathanbossenger.com

3. Learn.WordPress.org
Testing WordPress 6.3
Jonathan Bossenger

4. Announcements
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5. Announcements
○ Make sure your local install is ready
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6. Question time
○ On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being very good, how well do you know this topic?

7. Learning outcomes
○ Configuring your local testing environment
○ Configuring WordPress debugging
○ Testing your themes and plugins
○ Testing a few new developer features

8. Requirements
○ A default local WordPress install
○ A text editor
○ A plugin or theme to test
• https://github.com/jonathanbossenger/sendig/releases/download/develop/sendig.zip

9. Let’s go!

10. Resources
○ https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-3/
○ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/
○ https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/06/27/help-test-wordpress-6-3/
○ https://make.wordpress.org/core/
○ https://core.trac.wordpress.org/
○ https://login.wordpress.org/register