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
The title and last line of your question conflict, in the title you want HTTPS as the end result, in the final line your asking for HTTP. I assume the title is correct. Don’t use a WP plugin for this. I don’t have a godaddy account, but most commonly you would want an .htaccess file … Read more
WordPress 4.0 Forces entire site into SSL
Redirect the whole blog to SSL but not the RSS feed (under Nginx)
Solved this. I just needed to scrap the plugin and use the following code in my htaccess…AND switch my site/home URL to https://. But, now we’re all good. Here’s what I used, in case anyone else has this issue: # BEGIN HTTPS REDIRECT <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] </IfModule> … Read more
How to force non SSL on just one page?
The reason that this is happening is that WordPress will always use the ‘siteurl’ whenever you navigate past the home page. AFAIK there is no way around this to make the pages accessible from multiple urls. If you only want the ssl on certain pages, there are plugins for that. Besides, if you’ve paid for … Read more
The short answer is that you should always use https whenever possible even on the most basic websites regardless of whether you use wordpress. Here are some of the reasons with a short explanation. Security – Even on pages that don’t necessarily need to be secure it is useful to use https because you want … Read more
Well, this was about half my fault half Jetpacks’. WordPress in general defaults to non protocol-relative URLs (eg http:// not //) and the problem was an explicit http:// image I used Jetpack to insert into my sidebar. Moving that to a protocol-relative // cleared up the mixed content problem. In general keep an eye out … Read more
for anyone interested the hosting company is going to convert wp install to linux so that should sort things. found this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/ which could be good for anyone having issues on linux.