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WordPress

Adri Johari
Adri Johari
17,075 Points

I have a question regarding a website that I have right now. I use Plesk as web hosting and use WordPress as CMS.

I have a question regarding a website that I have right now. I use Plesk as web hosting and use WordPress as CMS. When I published the website, it said the website is not secure. I already upload the SSL certificate.

You will need to contact whoever handles the hosting. Its more than just uploading the SSL.

Vedran Linić
Vedran Linić
10,050 Points

you need to force HTTPS over HTTP. You can do this manually or you can try plugin like Really Simple SSL.

1 Answer

mariekew
mariekew
4,109 Points

You will need to set your Wordpress domain to 'https' and make sure there is no mixed content, after that you can force your visitors over 'https'. A plugin that can help you with this is 'Really simple SSL'.

It is far more than this. You are assuming the site actually has an SSL already setup/configured correctly. If you follow this suggestion and an SSL is not in place it will most likely run a redirect loop because the site will try to goto https and it does not exist. This will then need to be fixed either via directly changing those values in the database or using the wp-config to override the domain/site url.

Please do not just do this without making sure you have an SSL already setup/configured correctly.