This part of code was introduced as whole block, together with a bunch of other stuff, quite a few years ago. See changeset 8069 in trac. While there is no clear mention in PHP docs, apparently in specific configurations the value might be a full URL with protocol. See for example $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] returns full URL … Read more
WordPress logs out on protocol switch
I got the same problem, site wasn’t loading with Chrome after the update (I guess Firefox/Safari handles this somehow differently), because of those https asset links. Are you using WooCommerce by any chance? After updating that I got my site running again, here is a part of their changelog: Fix – Fixed Google Chrome forcing … Read more
The source of this problem was a mu-plugin that our vendor left in, but should have been removed. Anyway, the lesson here is to always check your plugins.
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