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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
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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/
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