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01/15/2020 02:28:08 PM (5 years ago)
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  • Ticket #48937, comment 5

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    66> Is there a dummy's guide to incorporating the patch for testing?
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    8 There is a guide https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/patch/, though it requires some prior knowledge of setting up a local development environment, which is by no means intuitive. I can try to answer any questions you have though. In terms of more informal, manual testing, an option would be to manually download a clean copy of WordPress, set up an install on a local server, and simply copy and paste the code to the relevant files.
     8There is a guide https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/patch/, though it requires some prior knowledge of setting up a local development environment, which is by no means intuitive. I can try to answer any questions you have though.
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     10In terms of more informal, manual testing, another option would be to manually download a clean copy of WordPress, set up an install on a local server, and simply copy and paste the code to the relevant files.
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    1012To try it out, you would need to force maintenance mode by creating a file called ".maintenance." in the root directory (where wp-config.php lives), and adding this line of code: