If you are using Domain Mapping plugin doing this will quickly achieve exactly what you are asking for. Go to: YOURDOMAIN/wp-admin/tools.php?page=domainmapping Under: Excluded pages, check: Force SSL for all pages. Save and you’re done. Your insecure mixed content error due to admin-ajax.php loading via http instead of via https should be gone after this.
To find mixed content on your pages use a site such as https://www.whynopadlock.com In doing so you will find the following image http://gingerhippo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/uses-of-the-yellow-pages.jpg being loaded by the page https://gingerhippo.com/2018/05/customer-journey/ If you use Firefox, most mixed content is easily found by viewing the offending page, clicking the padlock icon & clicking More Information and viewing the … Read more
Additional things to check: Email usage – if using cPanel, you can check this via Disk Usage; Cron-jobs – you can see these in cPanel. However, you can also search in phpMyAdmin for DB cron-jobs; Check traffic spikes/time-of-day in Google Analytics.
I have a strong suspicion that this had to do with me needing to clear the cache and cookies. I am also pretty sure that you can’t use SSL certificates that were generated independently. I ended up disabling SSL everywhere, getting the sites to map properly to the URLs, generating the certificates (first in manual … Read more
WP administration over SSL using different domain
If I’m reading this right, you have multisite.com set up with an Elastic Load Balancer using Route 53 and a wildcard certificate that also includes newsite.com newsite.com set up as an A record directly to your origin server not ELB In which case you’re most of the way to routing all newsite.com traffic through ELB … Read more
I would recommend NOT forcing HTTPS quite yet. Instead, remove all that stuff in wp-config.php and in the .htaccess. Then, login to WordPress making sure you’re using the HTTPS link. If you can login, then you now know you can login as both HTTP and HTTPS. Then, you can force HTTPS. If you can login … Read more
Try to set these settings in your wp-config.php: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://example.org’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘https://example.org’); Where https://example.org – your new domain
Replace all links before the installation of the SSL (you can update the links via SQL) How to mass update links Your wordpress should throw out https:// links now after the installation of the SSL certificate. This problem is due to wordpress decision to insert full links when inserting media through the editor.
Make sure your setting in admin > settings > general > WordPress Address & Site Address have https in there and not just http. Also, you will want to make sure if you have any static calls to images they include https. For that particular image it could be cached.