You can’t hook is_ssl() to override the result, and as you’ve noticed you can’t edit WordPress Core itself or your changes will get lost if you’re using built-in automatic updates. So the usual approach – see the WordPress documentation – is to set $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] = ‘on’;, which is the property is_ssl() tests. Add the following … Read more
WordPress has a number of implicit assumptions with regards to using SSL. Specifically, if you are using force_ssl_admin, and the “front” of your site has the same domain as the “back” does, then it assumes that your entire site is actually accessible either via http or https. This happens in a few different places. Most … Read more
It turned out to be a problem with the uploads directory (not sure what caused it initially). I was able to resolve the issue with the following filter: function fix_ssl( $url ) { if ( is_ssl() ) { if (stripos($url, ‘http://’) === 0) { $url=”https” . substr($url, 4); } } return $url; } function uploadDir($uploads) … Read more
Ok, I must confess that right now I am feeling like this. I think I might found a solution. I had the exact same problem and all I had to do was to add a page rule in my CloudFlare config. Create a new page rule like this: http://*.domain.com/feed/* And set “SSL” to “Off”, and … Read more
The https change was not the cause. Actually – coincidentally – the W3 Total Cache was updated on the same day, and the Minify setting was breaking lines between meta and property words on the HTML, which were causing the error on Facebook debug tool.
Is it a best practice? Yes. What will be the behavior of plugins? They should work fine. What are the pros and cons of my decision? Pros: More secure. Cons: none. http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL
You have “www.wisconsinwetlands.org” URLs redirecting to insecure “http://wisconsinwetlands.org“. The cases you have used these is in the images on the page. Every image that is set as “https://www.” redirects to the insecure version. So while you do need to fix that and correctly configure your setup so that both “www” and non-www URLs are secure, … Read more
Assuming that (it’s not clear from your question): you change htaccess to redirect http request to https (best way, IMHO). Lots of googles on that; your hosting place should also have guidance specific to thier hosting environment. you changed the two URLs in the wp-options table to show the full URL with https That’s all … Read more
Forcing SSL login, have to log in again from WP/BP-Admin Bar
Domain Mapping for WordPress MU and https redirection – How to?