Mixed content and TLS/SSL conversion

  • swedeman

    (@swedeman)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Looking to solicit comments/suggestions about the process of moving a WP site to all TLS/SSL. There are many resources about the process but seemingly no real definitive choices. This is what I’ve seen suggested so far in no particular order.

    1. Use a plugin like Really Simple SSL. Premium version has some additional features like scanning before conversion. Also SSL Insecure Content Fixer is an available plugin.

    2. Do a “Search & Replace” on the DB.

    3. Use a URL conversion plugin similar to velvet-blues-update-urls.

    4. When initially building a site make sure image links are all relative not absolute.

    Anyone used another option that they would recommend?

    Thanks

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  • Josh

    (@josh401)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Basically, when you switch your site to SSL… you are making sure all content is served from an https protocol. Anything served from an http protocol will result in the famous “mixed content” message.

    So.. any images, form redirections, or other non-static resources need to be called with an https protocol.

    What does this involve? Well, it depends on what theme/plugins you are using, and also your intent. Here are some simple steps to get you started.

    1) Change the site address from http to https in the admin settings page.
    2) Open the database, and find any instances of “http” and change them to “https”.
    3) On all posts/pages that use images.. you’ll want to change the image source from http to https.

    After those steps.. browse each page/post of your site looking for the “mixed content” warning. If any appear, then you know where to look to fix the protocol.

    Good Luck 🙂

    Thread Starter swedeman

    (@swedeman)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks Josh.

    Any tips for setting relative links in the WP interface?

    Images added to a post seem to reject editing of the URL.

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