Yes it applies to your old articles. There are several specific issues related to images which use absolute urls (mixed content errors). Basically you need to inform plugin/theme authors to update their code or to update it yourself (which is not recommended because in case of update you will lose the changes.) Yes. After applying … Read more
Sending SMTP mail using a server with self-signed SSL
SSL doesn’t deliver parts of WordPress Administration Module
You are getting redirected because of the automatic redirection to the canonical address of the page which is http://…. You will need to use the redirect_canonical filter https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/redirect_canonical/ to tell wordpress to not redirect for that page.
You could also add some rules to your .htaccess file to rewrite all http:// URLs to https:// This article from CSS Tricks explains what else you can do to move a WordPress site completely to https://
You must check all the files you load within the admin pages (including files loaded from plugins); they should be loaded over HTTPS. WordPress takes care about the files it loads itself, but it doesn’t control if you or your plugins load resources over HTTP; you must fix it. To find the resources loaded over … Read more
PHP Warning:fread(): SSL: Connection reset by peer in /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php line 269
wp_config was set up to force SSL by overwriting $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’], I respolved the issue. I assume someone was trying to make SSL work behind the proxy at one point. It would actually be a much better solution ( specifically for asset links ) to use the double slash //
Go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Settings >> General, then change the WordPress Address (URL) and the Site Address (URL) from HTTP to HTTPS. Then hit Save Changes button. If your problem is not fixed yet then go to Settings >> Permalinks and hit Save Changes button again. It’ll re-generate your .htaccess file. … Read more
It is not absolutely necessary to add anything to the config file. However it’s a good idea to do a test to look for any unsecured Http calls, such as stylesheets or Scripts. A good resource for this is https://www.whynopadlock.com/. The force SSL Setting can sometimes help with requests coming from plug-ins or anything you … Read more