Adding SSL to my WordPress Site?

  • Howdy,

    I’ve had my site for a while but just added an SSL certificate to it. What’s the best way to enable SSL on my site?

    I guess I don’t care if people have to use https to browse the site but anyone logging in or using the admin side should definitely be secured.

    Do I just change the two settings under General and add the ‘s’ to the end or is there more to it than that? If someone goes to the site without the ‘s’ I obviously need that to either just work or automatically change over to https.

    Any help would be great.

    Thanks!

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  • I did this by using the free plugin Really Simple SSL. As advertised, it was really simple, and for me it works perfectly.

    Yes – you are correct – just changing the the site url and home url and adding https is all you realy need to do.

    You can add this to htaccess as well to force https:

    #https redirection
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    Thread Starter kelemvor

    (@kelemvor)

    Thanks. I updated the two links manually which worked for most things but I still got errors about pictures not being secure. I used the plugin and everything seems great now.

    Thanks.

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