In this post, I won’t be going into quite as much detail as Zack did at his workshop, but I will show you how to avoid or fix certain issues that sometimes come up when moving your WordPress site to HTTPS.
We do this type of transition for clients all the time, so hopefully we can help you avoid some of the roadblocks we’ve encountered along the way.
P.S. I’m sure you’ve heard this by now, but you need to move your website to HTTPS if you haven’t already. Not only is it a potential security risk, but you’re also actively losing visitor trust and slowing down your website, plus browsers are cracking down on HTTP sites more than ever. Even if you don’t have a shopping cart or member area on your website: PLEASE
2 responses to “What WordPress Users Must Know About Moving to HTTPS”
Extremely useful article for WordPress beginners. No need to have technical expertise to install an SSL on wordpress with this article.
Just so you know, there are at least a few plugins that will convert all the URLs on your site to HTTPS, so you don’t actually have to go through and do it manually. They also seem to do it in a smarter and “safer” manner than doing something like a find and replace in your database, which may have the potential to break your site. It also makes it easy to toggle https on your site on and off, if you needed to do that for some reason.