Another blog post by yours truly on @wprealm .. http://wprealm.com/blog/are-your-plugins-secure/. Are your plugins secure?

RT @WPRealm: From WP Startup to Hiring Your First Employee http://wprealm.com/blog/from-wp-startup-to-hiring-your-first-employee/

Yay! I received a random out of the blue email thanking me for the help I've given the WP community 🙂 Small gestures mean a lot it seems.

@jarledb $10 is chump change. Thanks for fishing out the info. 🙂

@jarledb Ohhh, unlimited forwards on google apps would be very handy 🙂

@jarledb I think there's a limit to how many accounts you get for free. Plus requires routing it all through gMail. We just need forwarders.

@jarledb Yes, I use gMail. Not sure what your question is in relation to though.

I've made my recent medical investigation public for anyone who may be interested … http://www.facebook.com/ryanhellyer/posts/10151253931936789

@konstruktors Blargh, grammar/spelling has lost me for the evening.

@konstruktors I use a native application on my phablet anyway, so not to worried about that.

@konstruktors Ahhhhhh! I thought you were talking about Facebook performing medical stuff. I confused easily.

@konstruktors Facebook aint touchin' nuffink of mine!

@konstruktors WTF?

I'm thinking I should stop evangelising Facebook this evening. I don't even like that damned company! In fact, they're kinda evil.

I was too sick to do much, so I'd have just lied there feeling sorry for myself and maybe died if it wasn't for Facebook. @jmuenster

Posted symptoms on Facebook once & my friend Rachel picked me up 5 min later. Almost ended up sliced open for appendectomy then. @jmuenster

I've used Facebook for medical advice multiple times now. Works great 🙂 @jmuenster

TweetDeck just updated. Everything looks bigger and fatter, yet cleaner at the same time.

@jmuenster https://www.facebook.com/ryanhellyer/posts/10151253931936789

Thank the almighty gods for Facebook. Without it would have no reliable source of medical advice.

I'm getting really really sick of dealing with email hosting this week. I know nothing about it and want to wash my hands of it!

I need a hosted mail system which will let me forward emails to other addresses. Any ideas on a cheap solution for that?

1x highly productive day at work completed 🙂 It feels great to accomplish a lot in a short space of time.

Google Multi-fac Auth is way easier than it was. I haven't had ANY problems!!! The WordPress plugin is much better too http://bit.ly/gmultifac

@andrea_r Hmmm, tempting. That had better be a damned good cake though!

@andrea_r I think I'll stick with chilling out here 😉

Damn I'm efficient! I had a freakin' massive TODO list two days ago. Now, that list is almost totally demolished 😀

@keithdsouza Bummer. Hope the bride is okay with you bumping for an F1 race.

@pearsonified Have people been using Feedburner because they thought it was the "safe route"? If so, they must be very stupid people.

@pearsonified I've been saying that for years. People should have realised the risks when they decided to use a hosted feed service.

@adampickering_ I was disappointed with CloudFront too until I used @blitz_io on it and found my load times plummeted.

@adampickering_ Have you tried ramping up the traffic and then testing the speeds? Amazon CloudFront seems to go faster with more traffic.

@Krogsgard I solved it by making the child theme the parent theme. Functionality was a bit hard to move into a plugin.

@Krogsgard Templates and functionality.

@Rarst I heard it was a custom built thing.

@perricollins I pitched a blog post to @wprealm about it, so you may find I've written a blog post on the topic in the next few weeks 🙂

@bluelimemedia I am 100% convinced that responsive is perfect sometimes and that custom themes are perfect other times. Depends on situation

@perricollins Yes, I had to write a plugin to do it.

@bluelimemedia Ahhh, I see. Excellent idea. I should definitely write something about that.

@williamsba If it's just CSS, I'd have got them to use the Safe CSS plugin.

@bluelimemedia Grandchild themes? Not likely. I really don't like the concept.

@williamsba I'm surprised you've ever found a use for such a thing

@williamsba @ryancduff I don't consider that a grandchild theme, that's just a different CSS file. I need to make actual template changes.

I figured out how to force mobile devices to load specific child themes without bugginess … http://pastebin.com/vtxKxbTG @phenomenoodle

Has anyone out there tried to use a child theme for a mobile version of their site? I'm trying, but failing.

@phenomenoodle That code is not working properly with a child theme 🙁 add_filter('template', 'change_theme');

@Tarendai Instead of a build case, I'll probably stick with smacking the developer on the back of the head next time I see them.

@Tarendai Tool = text editor, instructions = remove "template". Done 🙂

@Tarendai @BoweFrankema I removed "template" in the style.css file. Theme still works just fine 🙂 So much for "Twenty Eleven" child 😉

@Tarendai I may just un-child theme the child theme. It has almost ALL of it's own template files anyway. It's a stupid child theme.

@Tarendai @BoweFrankema Child themes make it easier though.

@BoweFrankema I think I'll just need to work around this issue, perhaps by jamming everything in the regular child theme.

@Tarendai I haven't made a mistake, the person who made the thing I need to child theme made a mistake by also making it a child theme 😉

It seems that grandchild themes do work, but they're not supported by core and buggy. Thanks to @BoweFrankema @ryancduff @Tarendai for input

@ryancduff Some muppet set me up with a child theme of Twenty Eleven which I now want to make a mobile child theme for.

@ryancduff It's the "not legit" issue that concerns me.

@no_fear_inc I don't think I'll be giving birth to a child of a child any time soon.

@Tarendai Thanks. Last time I'd heard, it was a similar situation.

Hmm, WordPress grandchild theme!? Is it possible?

@phenomenoodle Yeah, I needed to change the complete theme. Seems to be working well now 🙂

My critical failing was trying to change themes from within an existing theme. Bit like swallowing the red pill @phenomenoodle

Answer to my mobile theme question earlier was add_filter('template', 'change_theme') @phenomenoodle

@phenomenoodle Unfortunately not. It's the changing of themes that I'm stuck on.

@SunleyNZ The ugly cat offsets the rainbow and sparkles quite nicely.

Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest for me. How oh how do I force WordPress to use a different theme when browsing via mobile?

@mrjakehumphrey I'd have thought logic would dictate that is a good idea. Some people are not very logical it seems.

@SunleyNZ I'm not sure if that's a joke or not. Is it supposed to be a 404 error poster?

@SunleyNZ You are terrible at making posters. That's half the job done. Now go see @five15design for the other half please 🙂

@AKiwiInGermany I've been planning to go visit my friend Stefanie who also lives near Dusseldorf.

@PShilling Yep, @rarst found the solution immediately. http://queryposts.com/function/get_search_query/

@TurcuCiprian Yes, I was referring to the search query. It's the get_search_query() function http://queryposts.com/function/get_search_query/

@xpd Nope, thanks anyway though. @Rarst found it – http://queryposts.com/function/get_search_query/

@Rarst Thanks 🙂 I knew it had to be something really obvious.

I could swear there is a function in WordPress which outputs the contents of the WP search string. Any ideas what it's called?

@AKiwiInGermany I have a spare bed you are welcome to use if you visit Norway.

@AKiwiInGermany I love Germany so will definitely be visiting at some point. Where in Germany are you? I live in Oslo now.

How many WordPress developers does it take to add the "Update" button to the WP post edit screen. Three so far. More on the way …

@pearsonified It's a minor improvement. But 20 ms on desktop could easily be +100 ms on a low powered mobile device which is significant.

@pearsonified Sounds like a sensible way to do it.

@pearsonified Ohhh, interesting! You should post your test results. Sounds like an interesting experiment.

@pearsonified Are you sure you aren't just measuring the difference in file sizes? ie: large CSS file takes longer to load than a small one?

@pearsonified How do you measure the rendering time? I can measure load times, but I've never thought about actual rendering times before.

@pearsonified Thanks. Sounded like you were doing some sort of on the fly compiling of CSS files, which would have been slower.

@pearsonified What one earth does "Thesis templates compile faster" mean?

Apparently I am "The “aha” blogger" http://krogsgard.com/2012/on-quality-writing-in-the-wordpress-community/ @Krogsgard

@sabreuse @JellyBeen I did find it very odd when they asked me what a cog was.

@andrea_r Do you have a use for the domain?

@JellyBeen I guess they just call them "gears" over there.

@JellyBeen Nope, just the gear/machine part. I asked in the WP weekly aftershow about it ages back. None of Americans knew what it meant.

@JellyBeen Me too. I was planning to use it, but it seems that USA people don't know what a cog is.

Who wants http://wpcogs.com? It's about to expire and I need to get rid of it.

Lolz RT @andrea_r forum thread: " Help me Obi Wan! You're my only hope!" Me : " here's the droid you;re looking for"

@no_fear_inc Very soon too I believe 🙂

@no_fear_inc You should definitely write about WordCamp Sofia on WP Realm 🙂 I wanna read about it!

@Jghazally I think people should use whatever works best for them. Personally, I like simplicity and a good search and replace tool.

@Jghazally VIM? Jeepers. Hard core.

@ormanclark Oddly, some other theme companies do use publicly available download links.

@omrisancho The update plugin? You can also use SVN with a Cron job, that's what I do.

@zamoose @williamsba BAAAAAAA! … for some reason that makes me feel at home.