Along with greet, to improve our website we changed from Http to Https, and we took the Really Simple SSL plugins compatible with our website, but that caused the web to be deconfigured, it was slower and not all the photos came out.
Then we went back to uninstall the SSL pluggins, but the web deconfiguration error still does not load all the content.
We have reviewed in other browsers and present different errors and slow loading of the page.
http://www.chileandtravelmagazine.com
You need to
a) update all settings in theme to show https vs http
b) update WP admin panel settings for https
c) do search/replace in your mysql dbase for all placed files and links in posts from http to https
d) useful to explicitly include https URL to website and theme/plugin folders in wp-config.php
e)resave permalinks again in theme panel before / after any changes
f) setup redirect for all content from http to https version; but this can also now be done with most hosting panels (Plesk/ONYX, CPANEL, etc.)
No ‘plugin’ can do all that for you, unfortunately.
You don’t need to use any plugin. All you need is Free Cloudfare Cdn, it provides ssl certificate for free. Then you will have to add it on your hosting. To check the errors, you will have to do view source of page and find any element that messes with the fully https functionality.
All good web hosting providers now offer Let’s Encrypt SSL certs for free, so ‘free’ certs is not a main element for choosing a solution for https.
However, you still need to search/replace content in your post meta which has http such as placed images to be https. And any theme panel elements like social links for RSS feed, logo links,favicon link, etc. need to be updated.
We’ve done about 50 conversions from http to https since 2014 with WordPress. The way I outline above is recommended, but simply dumping stuff onto a CDN won’t fix all that either.
Lots of choices, obviously. 🙂
I did that on my website website, and i believe there are many hosting services which do not provide free ssl cert. Like mine, Godaddy didn’t.
Apart from that, Cloudfare is really a need, it’s a good “Free” Cdn with additional speed boosting with rocket script.
Depends on hosting plan with GoDaddy as they roll that out…
with dedicated or VPN, see:
https://www.godaddy.com/help/install-a-lets-encrypt-ssl-apache-20245
Shared/managed hosting:
If your hosting setup on GoDaddy uses cPanel with GoDaddy, you can install the Let’s Encrypt SSL cert for free, however as of last look it needed to be manually updated every 3 months as the auto-update option was not yet enabled with the cPanel plugin.
Or switch to one of the many top hosting providers who *do* support it 🙂
Obviously GoDaddy makes a lot of money off selling validated SSL certs annually, so they are not going to kill that business — but they need to support LE as it’s being pushed by a lot of big players like Google, etc. who are basically forcing everybody to do SSL/HTTPS/TLS or get a warning sticker.
Of course; none of that is related to updating site content for ANY https/TLS environment.
Cheers. I’m no longer on this board as of Feb. 17, so take care all! 🙂
Hello, i’ve just succeed to switch from http to https and used a plugin called Remove Http to complete the job…it worked smoothly 😉 good luck!
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