Join me in testing Data Views

As the Test lead for WordPress 6.6 and from my experience running the FSE Outreach Program, I remain obsessed with how we can bring more people into testing key parts of what’s new in WordPress and empower people to share feedback in the project.

A few weeks ago, I decided to throw together a WordPress Playground instance (you can learn more about WordPress Playground in my YouTube video on the topic) that has 200 pages to help stress test some of the new Data Views work. You can try this out for yourself below:

I ended up finding a fair amount of issues just in a 5-10 minute session:

• Ran into this current issue: Data views: Switching layout shouldn’t reset filters.
• Data Views: filtering by numerous authors causes frameshift (later closed this out after a new Gutenberg version).
• Data Views: when trying to bulk edit on a site with many pages, the bulk edit option counts up
• Data Views: Changing items per page to 100 results in poor loading experience
• Data Views: selecting multiple authors to filter by in List layout causes padding issues.
• Data views: while loading, a “no results” message flashed (later closed this out after a new Gutenberg version).
• Data Views: filtering by author for pages doesn’t scale with 2+ authors.

I’ve continued to use this testing environment as much as I can and am looking at creating a 2,000+ page site, ideally with a ton of images too to help test out bringing Data Views to the Media Library (experimental, early work).

What can you find and report in the Gutenberg GitHub repo while trying out this test environment? Some ideas for what to test:

• Create a new page.
• Search for a page.
• Try filtering by author and status.
• Change the layout and use the pagination controls.

My offer remains to create more WordPress Playground instances to help more folks play with what’s new in WordPress and make it better before the next version lands. Happy WordPress-ing.