Title: HTTPS Mixed Content Problem With TwentyFourteen Theme
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# HTTPS Mixed Content Problem With TwentyFourteen Theme

 *  [user2037](https://wordpress.org/support/users/user2037/)
 * (@user2037)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mixed-content-problem-with-twentyfourteen-theme/)
 * After adding HTTPS using Cloudflare I noticed that I get mixed content problems.
   Looking at the source many of the links are not HTTPS. Ideally I’d expect the
   links to be “//” instead of “[http://&#8221](http://&#8221); or “[https://&#8221](https://&#8221);
   so that they’d work either way.
 * FWIW, my web host is only HTTP and not HTTPS. But I don’t see any reason why 
   it can’t work if the links were made to be security agnostic.
 * Anyone know how to resolve this problem?

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mixed-content-problem-with-twentyfourteen-theme/#post-5463718)
 * You need to use the paid features of CloudFlare for HTTPS sites…
 *  Thread Starter [user2037](https://wordpress.org/support/users/user2037/)
 * (@user2037)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mixed-content-problem-with-twentyfourteen-theme/#post-5463827)
 * Thanks for taking the time to respond, but actually I don’t: [http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/](http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/)
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mixed-content-problem-with-twentyfourteen-theme/#post-5463847)
 * Did not know they had rolled that out…but:
    1. You are only encrypting content
   from CloudFlare to the end users with this, not from your site to CloudFlare.
   In the article, it notes this and suggests you use an SSL cert. on the site itself.
   2. If you do not, you will need to find out what content _is not being cached
   at CloudFlare_. Usually this is external content, such as a Google Font, a YouTube
   Video, a third party API, Social Media items, etc. Just review all content for`
   http://site.com/` and find where to change that to `https://site.com/` (in a 
   theme file, in site content, from a _poorly done_ plugin). You can view each 
   page’s source code and use the browser search function to look for them. If you
   have hardcoded _external URL_‘s @ `http://site.com/` into content, you can perform
   a search and replace on the DB using phpMyAdmin (always backup fully your DB 
   prior to any manual work on it).
 * It is always OK to be at HTTP and include an external URL at HTTPS, but never
   the other way around.
 *  Thread Starter [user2037](https://wordpress.org/support/users/user2037/)
 * (@user2037)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mixed-content-problem-with-twentyfourteen-theme/#post-5463972)
 * Unfortunately it turns out WP was getting stuck in an infinite redirect loop.
   This article’s advice appears to do the trick: [https://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/2014/10/redirect-loops-with-ssl-wordpress-and-cloudflare/](https://atechnologyjobisnoexcuse.com/2014/10/redirect-loops-with-ssl-wordpress-and-cloudflare/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/https-mixed-content-problem-with-twentyfourteen-theme/#post-5463972)
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