Securing your website is a must for every website owner. Nonsecure websites don’t usually affect your website’s functionality but they do impact your user experience and your Google SEO rankings.
Imagine your users seeing a NON-SECURE or Red Lock saying the site is not secure when they visit your site. This makes users uneasy but it can be easily fixed y adding an SSL certificate.
Most WordPress hosting companies let you add a free Let’s Encrypt SSL within their control panels to easily secure your website. Not sure? Contact
What if I have an SSL Certificate and I still have errors?
This is a very common problem. Most people do have SSLs installed but their sites show as nonsecure or they say the following:
- How to Fix SSL Not Fully Secure WordPress Website
- How to Fix Mixed Content Errors in WordPress
- How to Fix “Your Connection to This Site is Not Fully Secured”
Fix SSL Not Fully Secure WordPress Website Tutorial
Resources for finding HTTPS SSL Errors:
- https://www.jitbit.com/sslcheck/ – This free tool will crawl an HTTPS-website (entire website, recursively, following internal links) and search for non-secure images, scripts and css-files that will trigger a warning message in browsers.
- https://www.whynopadlock.com/ – See exactly which elements are not secure so you can clean them up!
Resources for Fixing Non Secure Content on Your WordPress Site
Really Simple SSL – https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/
- Search for HTTP and replace it with HTTPS. This cleans up all the nonsecured links on your site. Most content errors can be cleaned up manually but this can take forever to do. Better Search Replace is an automated way to clean up these links and SSL HTTPS errors
Coppy This Code Paste Your .htaccess File
Header set Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-insecure-requests
# Begin HTTPS redirect
# RewriteEngine On
# RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTPS _HOST}%{request_URI} {L,R=301}
#End HTTPS redirect
# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between `BEGIN WordPress` and `END WordPress` are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
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Fix SSL Not Fully Secure WordPress Website
Want to take this a step further? Learn how to add a free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate or a paid OV, DV, or EV Cert to your site to secure it and rank better with Google!
Securing Your Website with HTTPS is a must for all website owners and with this course, you will have the skillset to secure your site and help others secure theirs.
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