Problem with SSL

Jared,

It seems that the fundamental problem is a long-standing bug in WordPress: see this and the other tickets to which it refers.

I haven’t found that any of the workarounds mentioned there helps at all. But I have found that adding a couple of functions to functions.php seems to overcome the problem.

I took the inspiration from here, and came up with this:

function wpse_84046_upload_path( $path ) {
    return 'wp-content/uploads';
}
add_filter( 'pre_option_upload_path', 'wpse_84046_upload_path' );

function wpse_84046_upload_path_url( $url ) {
    return 'wp-content/uploads';
}
add_filter( 'pre_option_upload_path_url', 'wpse_84046_upload_path_url' );

Although it’s obviously still using the same uploads folder as before, some avatars may need to be re-uploaded after making this change. But, once that’s done, it all works with SSL (when that is set) without causing mixed content warnings.

I don’t know whether this is something you might integrate into the plugin.

Jared,

You’re right that it’s a less than ideal approach, but I can’t think of anything better, given that the problem lies within WordPress itself.

I think that, if I were convinced that the next WordPress update would solve the problem, then I’d probably be inclined to suggest that you just wait it out.

But, because the fixes and workarounds suggested in the various Trac tickets don’t work for me, I am far from convinced. I think your proposed “short term fix” might actually turn out to be useful for quite a while!

OK, that makes sense. Thanks!