<div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/billie/' title='Version 4.3 of WordPress, named “Billie” in honor of jazz singer Billie Holiday, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.3 make it even easier to format your content and customize your site. Menus in the Customizer Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while live-previewing in […]'>WordPress 4.3 “Billie”</a> <span class="rss-date">August 18, 2015</span><div class='rssSummary'>Version 4.3 of WordPress, named “Billie” in honor of jazz singer Billie Holiday, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.3 make it even easier to format your content and customize your site. Menus in the Customizer Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while live-previewing in […]</div></li></ul></div><div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://blog.akismet.com/2015/08/27/quantifying-reddit-bigotry/' title='We never pass on the opportunity to mix in a little bit of humor with our passion for web content moderation. One of our engineers, Dan Walmsley, participated in Cultivated Wit’s Comedy Hack Day in Los Angeles last weekend, and his team’s resulting project has since surfaced on Motherboard and Engadget. Free Reddit Check, created by Dan’s team and crowned with the day’s top prize, is a site which attempts to quantify the terribleness of Reddit users based on their public comment content and subreddit participation. While perfectly suited for a hack day which pairs developers and comedians, there is certainly usefulness in determining the respectability of a potential online acquaintance. Or just knowing who to ignore. And being obsessed with content analysis, community moderation, and keeping the web’s underbelly in check, we can’t help but think it’s a nifty idea.   '>Akismet: Quantifying Reddit Bigotry</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-205-interview-with-miriam-schwab' title='In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I’m joined by Miriam Schwab, founder and CEO of Illuminea, a web development company based in Israel. She’s also on the Steering Board of Digital Eve Israel, one of the leading communities for professional women in Israel to help empower women economically. Schwab explains her WordPress origin story, what it’s like to live in Israel, and how active the WordPress community is in her area. She shares her thoughts on the future of WordPress and warns that if it doesn’t improve the user experience, it will drive users away to competing platforms. At the end of the interview, she tells us her favorite plugins that she installs on most of her client sites. Stories Discussed: First Look at the Twenty Sixteen Default WordPress Theme Sessions From BuddyCamp Brighton, UK Now Available to Watch on WordPress.tv OSTraining Makes Pods Framework Video Training Series Available for Free WPWeekly Meta: Next Episode: Wednesday, September 2nd 9:30 P.M. Eastern Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: Click here to subscribe Subscribe To WPWeekly Via RSS: Click here to subscribe Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Stitcher Radio: Click here to subscribe Listen To Episode #205: '>WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 205 – Interview With Miriam Schwab</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wptavern.com/first-look-at-the-twenty-sixteen-default-wordpress-theme' title='WordPress 4.4 is the last scheduled major release of the year and with it will come a new default theme to replace Twenty Fifteen. On the Make WordPress Core site, Tammie Lister published an image gallery that shows off the design of Twenty Sixteen. According to Lister, the process of determining the new default theme has taken months, “Lots of themes were considered, eventually settling on the one you see below. It’s a perfect fit,” she said. Twenty Sixteen Twenty Sixteen is designed by Takashi Irie, who also designed the Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Fifteen default themes. Irie describes Twenty Sixteen as: A modernized approach of an ever-popular layout — a horizontal masthead and an optional right sidebar that works well with both blogs and websites. It has custom color options that allow you to make your own Twenty Sixteen. The theme was designed on a harmonious fluid grid with a mobile first approach. This means it looks great on any device. The new theme has hints of Twenty Fourteen but is different enough to stand on its own as a unique design. It doesn’t look as modern as Twenty Fifteen out-of-the box but the design could change during the 4.4 development cycle. If you want to help Twenty Sixteen be the best it can be, please join the weekly meetings held every Monday and Friday at 16:00 UTC in the #core-themes channel on SlackHQ. The meetings are a half hour-long and start once the theme is initially added to WordPress core. What do you think of Twenty Sixteen?'>WPTavern: First Look at the Twenty Sixteen Default WordPress Theme</a></li></ul></div>