Beta testing doc addition (#46244)

* Adds beta testing directory and doc to docs directory

* Adds manifest.json

* Fixes typo

* Linter fix

---------

Co-authored-by: Shani Banerjee <shanibanerjee@Shanis-MacBook-Pro.local>
This commit is contained in:
Shani 2024-04-04 13:56:50 -04:00 committed by GitHub
parent 790373ba3b
commit d80086ef87
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG Key ID: B5690EEEBB952194
2 changed files with 48 additions and 1 deletions

View File

@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
---
category_title: Beta Testing
category_slug: Beta Testing
tags: how-to
---
# Beta Testing New Features
Beta testing is vital to ensuring our releases are as bug free as possible and to ensure we hear user feedback before putting changes live. Anyone can beta test; shop owners, plugin developers, theme developers, translators, any and all help is welcome.
We do understand however that the process of testing can be a little bit of a hassle since you need to download a tagged release and then upload it to your testing site manually. Sometimes this can also cause issues with plugin directory naming as well, because tagged releases will not have a directory named `woocommerce`. This can break extensions.
To make this process easier, we have released a beta testing plugin to help install the WooCommerce beta versions, and to ensure the directory names are kept correct.
Please ensure you test responsibly, it is not a good idea to run beta versions on a production site unless you have experience and can anticipate changes and failures.
## Installing the Beta Tester Plugin
To get started, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload plugin, and install the beta tester plugin which you can download from:
[WooCommerce Beta Tester](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-beta-tester/)
This plugin will give you access to all of the WooCommerce versions uploaded to [WordPress.org]. This includes beta releases and release candidates.
## Giving Feedback
During testing, if you come across a bug or want to propose or contribute an enhancement, [submit an issue on Github](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/new?assignees=&labels=type%3A+enhancement%2Cstatus%3A+awaiting+triage&template=2-enhancement.yml&title=%5BEnhancement%5D%3A+). Ensure you read our guidelines on contributing and note which version you are using specifically. It is also possible to easily submit a new GitHub issue through the [beta tester plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-beta-tester/).
Sometimes we may also ask for feedback via other means, such as the surveys and calls for testing on the [developer blog](https://developer.woo.com/blog/). We appreciate immediate feedback, comments, and responses to surveys as it helps us judge how well received our releases and betas are and will help us shape future versions.
Thanks for testing WooCommerce!

View File

@ -13,6 +13,23 @@
}
],
"categories": [
{
"category_slug": "beta-testing",
"category_title": "Beta Testing",
"posts": [
{
"category_title": "Beta Testing",
"category_slug": "Beta Testing",
"tags": "how-to",
"post_title": "Beta Testing New Features",
"edit_url": "https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/edit/trunk/docs/beta-testing/beta-testing.md",
"hash": "1a78d319e7b1dfb6c43c1ca848ca001c0c7c48736e20d8a1813f7caaeaf78abc",
"url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/trunk/docs/beta-testing/beta-testing.md",
"id": "a54b0065664aabc84e01b564f1e055f339fac194"
}
],
"categories": []
},
{
"content": "\nDiscover tutorials and guides for creating custom WooCommerce stores. This section is your toolkit for building advanced, modern online shops that meet the needs of merchants and customers alike.\n",
"category_slug": "building-a-woo-store",
@ -1218,5 +1235,5 @@
"categories": []
}
],
"hash": "1eaeab0efc6461662fd7b983b85dd17b2b803fcfe88e37b43ed6923589e88961"
"hash": "ac286b65bd2784775f7af6cf394f351b5af0e9381aa8f703a1d24432671452d4"
}