HTTPS certificate warning and redirect issue after updating TranslatePress

  • indirectelex

    (@indirectelex)


    1 week, 3 days ago

    Hello,

    I believe I have found a regression introduced by the latest TranslatePress update.

    Environment

    • WordPress (latest)
    • TranslatePress (latest version after update)
    • Astra Pro
    • Cloudflare (DNS only, no proxy)
    • Apache
    • HTTPS with a valid Let’s Encrypt certificate

    Issue

    Immediately after updating TranslatePress, Brave (and sometimes other Chromium-based browsers) starts displaying HTTPS/security warnings when visiting my site.

    Before the update, everything worked normally.

    To verify this wasn’t a server issue, I restored my entire virtual machine from a backup taken before the update. Without changing anything else, the problem disappeared completely.

    I updated TranslatePress again, and the problem immediately returned.

    This makes the issue 100% reproducible on my installation.

    What I’ve verified

    • SSL certificate is valid.
    • home and siteurl are correctly configured to HTTPS.
    • is_ssl() returns true.
    • The web server is correctly serving HTTPS.
    • Restoring the VM before the TranslatePress update fixes the problem.
    • Updating TranslatePress immediately brings the problem back.

    Observed behavior

    After the update, requests involving the translated language (/fr) appear to trigger unexpected redirect or HTTPS behavior that results in browser security warnings.

    Questions

    1. Are you aware of any recent changes to redirect handling or HTTPS detection?
    2. Has anyone reported similar issues after the latest release?
    3. Is there any debug mode or logging I can enable in TranslatePress to determine exactly what changed?

    I would be happy to perform additional tests or provide logs if needed.

    Additional information

    This issue is reproducible on my installation:

    1. Restore the site from a backup taken before the TranslatePress update → everything works correctly.
    2. Update TranslatePress to the latest version → HTTPS/security warnings immediately appear again.
    3. Restore the backup again → the issue disappears.

    I have repeated this process multiple times with the same result, which strongly suggests the problem is introduced by the latest TranslatePress update rather than by my server configuration.

    The problem occurs when updating from version 3.2.1 to version 3.2.2.

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  • Thread Starter indirectelex

    (@indirectelex)

    1 week, 3 days ago

    The problem occur when I update from Version 3.2.1 to Version 3.2.2

    Plugin Support Anca

    (@ancavictoria)

    1 week, 3 days ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for the information you’ve shared!

    I checked your site on both Brave and Chrome and didn’t notice any HTTPS or security warnings on my end.
    Could you please let me know if the issue is still occurring for you?

    If so, could you please send over a screenshot, and let me know if it appears on a specific page in particular? That way, I can check whether I’m able to reproduce the warnings on my end.
    You can use a site like https://snipboard.io/ to share the screenshots.

    It would also be helpful to know whether you see the same issue when checking from a different device.

    Kind regards,

    Anca

    Thread Starter indirectelex

    (@indirectelex)

    1 week, 2 days ago

    The issue is no longer occurring because I rolled back to the previous TranslatePress version.

    After updating to the latest version, the HTTPS/security warning appeared again. Once I restored/rolled back to the previous version, the warning disappeared.

    My environment:

    • WordPress behind Cloudflare (SSL mode: Full (Strict))
    • WordPress URLs use https://
    • Apache + MariaDB
    • WP Rocket enabled
    • Brave browser (although the problem also appeared when accessing the site directly)

    During troubleshooting I verified that:

    • The database credentials were correct.
    • WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL were set to https://echodata.ca.
    • Cloudflare SSL configuration was unchanged.
    • The issue disappeared immediately after restoring the previous VM snapshot / previous TranslatePress version.

    While the issue was present, I observed:

    • https://echodata.ca redirected unexpectedly.
    • /fr/ returned incorrect behavior (404/redirects depending on the attempted fix).
    • WordPress sometimes generated HTTP URLs instead of HTTPS URLs for translated pages.

    Since restoring the previous version, the site works normally again without changing the server or Cloudflare configuration.

    This makes me believe the issue is related to the latest TranslatePress update rather than my server configuration.

    Here are the screenshots from when the problem occurred:

    https://snipboard.io/6ToRhH.jpg https://snipboard.io/F73iQX.jpg

    Plugin Support Anca

    (@ancavictoria)

    4 days, 5 hours ago

    Hello @indirectelex

    A new TranslatePress Multilingual 3.2.3 update was released yesterday. Could you please let me know if the issue still persists after updating to this latest version?

    Could you also let me know whether the HTTPS or security warnings appear when accessing the site from different devices as well?

    Kind regards,

    Anca

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