Thanks a lot for the great participation to win 5 Xtreme One WordPress Framework licenses inclusive a Childtheme! We did the drawing of the winner this weekend at the WordCamp Germany right after our session, where we also introduced the…

With version 1.3 many features were added to improve the workflow and significantly improve page performance. An overview of all the special features of Xtreme Theme can be seen here: Besides many small changes under the hood, the new Widget…

A new version of Xtreme One, the WordPress Framework, was released last week. It includes two major new features. With the new developed Option-Router it's possible that the Childthemes manage their own settings, layouts and additional all used Widgets with…

We just want to say thank you to Ozh, Justin Tadlock and Brad Williams, that they mentioned our website in their new book Professional WordPress Plugin Development. We are just one of a few recommendations in this book and we…

Earlier today the new version 1.1 of the WordPress Framework Xtreme One was released. Including a world premiere: Optional Output of HTML5 Xtreme One is the first and only WordPress Framework/Theme, which is able to output HTML5 if you…

On Jan 17th at 20:52 UTC there was a network outage that caused the Akismet.com DNS servers to be unavailable for 12 minutes. The problem has since been fixed, and everything is back to normal now. This means that for…

Version 2.5.1 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. Check the Plugins tab of your wp-admin dashboard and follow the instructions to auto-update. This version of the plugin requires WordPress 3.0 or higher. It fixes several minor issues…

Version 2.5.0 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress 3 is now available. Check the Plugins tab of your wp-admin dashboard for instructions on how to update automatically, or visit the plugin page for details. This version requires WordPress 3.0 or…

Same procedure as every year! After the very successful Advent Calendar last year on WP Engineer we will provide our readers another Advent Calendar this year. What does it mean exactly? Especially in Germany we have the tradition of an…

Today Akismet caught its 20 billionth spam. That’s an average of around 10 million per day over the 5 years since Akismet first launched. Currently we deal with 30 million spam comments on a typical day, or about 350 per…

Akismet was the very first commercial service released by Automattic. 5 years later, Akismet.com was still running with exactly the same design it’s had since day 1. That it still looked good was a testament to the strength of understated…

If you’re planning to launch a social network or online publishing service, it’s important that you have a plan in place for dealing with spam. At some point the bad guys will find a way to take advantage of your…

Version 2.4 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is available now. This is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs, and includes some preparation for new features in a forthcoming version. Major changes include: * Akismet now uses the trash…

Version 2.2.9 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. This version fixes a conflict in 2.2.8 that could potentially lead to spurious spam or ham reports on blogs that use other spam filtering plugins in conjunction with Akismet.…

Version 2.2.8 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. Changes in this version include better diagnostic checks, and fixes for a bug that prevented false positive reports from being submitted in some circumstances. Users of modern WordPress versions…

There are two different ways to display a source code instead of executing a source code in a post or page. Depending on preferences which HTML tag is defined in the style sheet and provided with formatting, code fragments are…

Displaying a message to the user after he started an action belongs to a good usability. In the era of Web 2.0 applications, the user is expecting such optical signal after his actions. Also WordPress Plugin developer should give the…