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	<title>ec-co.mp &#187; Tips</title>
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		<title>WordPress Multi-Sites and timthumb.php</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently moved all my clients over to an install of Wordpress Multi-Sites to enable them to have a single sign on for all their websites. I didn't however factor in any problems that I'd face with doing this. It all went pretty smoothly to be honest with one or two problems that I'll document on here.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently moved all my clients over to an install of WordPress Multi-Sites to enable them to have a single sign on for all their websites. I didn&#8217;t however factor in any problems that I&#8217;d face with doing this. It all went pretty smoothly to be honest with one or two problems that I&#8217;ll document on here. The main problem I&#8217;ve had so far is with any themes using timthumb.php, which enables the theme to do on-the-fly image thumb creation. Searching around the web I found that due to the domain mapping feature I&#8217;ve enabled timthumb.php isn&#8217;t able to pick up the new virtual address, therefore you get a 404 error when trying to reach the file.</p>
<p>Mindpop over at <a href="http://odotteeaux.com/" target="_blank">http://odotteeaux.com/</a> found this solution &#8211; <a href="http://odotteeaux.com/blog/2010/07/30/timthumb-php-in-wordpress-multi-site-and-mu/" target="_blank">http://odotteeaux.com/blog/2010/07/30/timthumb-php-in-wordpress-multi-site-and-mu/</a>. It fixes the problem just by overwriting the originally suplied timthumb.php with your theme with this one &#8211; <a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/" target="_blank">http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/04/02/timthumb-php-script-released/</a>.</p>
<p>Hope this saves some time.</p>
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		<title>Cloudflare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend everyone who is on shared hosting to try this new service, Cloudflare. It's a free service that boosts your sites speed and security massively. They also do pro accounts for $20 a month with more features, but the free version will be fine for most people.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recommend everyone who is on shared hosting to try this new service, <a title="Cloudflare" href="http://www.cloudflare.com" target="_blank">Cloudflare</a>. It&#8217;s a free service that boosts your sites speed and security massively. They also do pro accounts for $20 a month with more features, but the free version will be fine for most people.</p>
<p>Created in part by the Project Honeypot team, responsible for creating and maintaining a large list of blacklisted IP&#8217;s of hackers and spammers, it can help you reduce the cost of your hosting if you get a certain amount of bandwidth. It works by taking a snapshot of your pages and serving it from their site when people visit your pages, which results in a much faster website speed; Google ranks pages higher if your pages loads quickly. Also if you website goes down you users will be served the cached version via Cloudflare&#8217;s servers, so in theory you should have zero downtime!</p>
<p>It also aids security by scanning users who visit your site before they even get to it. If it thinks they are suspicious then it will give them a page with a CAPTCHA image that they have to type to verify they are human first. It checks for any vulnerabilities that the users try and exploit and can block them on the fly.</p>
<p>You get managed access over the entire process through their control panel, letting you customise the entire experience to your users.</p>
<p>I would say you need a moderate amount of experience to do this with your own site, it involves changing DNS and Name Server records with your domain registrar so that you can route your traffic through Cloudflare&#8217;s servers. We do provide this service to our clients if you&#8217;re hosted with us though, so you might even already be using the service.</p>
<p>Feel free to <a title="Contact Us" href="http://ec-co.mp/#contact" target="_blank">contact us</a> for more information.</p>
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