Title: SSL and Mixed Content Errors Last modified: May 29, 2020 --- # SSL and Mixed Content Errors * [itseno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itseno/) * (@itseno) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-and-mixed-content-errors/) * Hello! * I am working to set up SSL on my Hostek WordPress site, but I keep running into Mixed Content Errors. I’ve used a variety of tools to try to get rid of the mixed content, a find and replace feature switching all the http:// with https:// as well as trying to force the page over SSL, but only the main page seems to have the green padlock, most subpages don’t have the padlock, and I believe it is because of the mixed content errors, but I can’t seem to get rid of them. * Would anyone be able to help me with this? - This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/). Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fssl-and-mixed-content-errors%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [dominic_ks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominic_ks/) * (@dominic_ks) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-and-mixed-content-errors/#post-12911438) * Hello, * You can investigate what is causing your mixed content errors by using the browser console, most browsers you can use **ctrl shft i** to open and select the console. * I couldn’t see any errors on the link you posted there, but found one here: - [https://blondiesstl.com/lunch-menu/](https://blondiesstl.com/lunch-menu/) * The reason for the error on this page is there is an image which is being loaded over https: - [http://blondiesstl.com/wp-content/themes/piquant/assets/img/preload_pattern.png](http://blondiesstl.com/wp-content/themes/piquant/assets/img/preload_pattern.png) * Since you have SSL on the domain, you should be able to load anything over SSL from your server. * Personally, my process for switching sites to SSL is to use this plugin: - [https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/) * And then follow this process: 1. Back up the database 2. Run a search replace, with all three options checked – i.e. case insensitive, replace GUIDs and Run as Dry Run, replacing _[http://blondiesstl.com](http://blondiesstl.com)_ with _[https://blondiesstl.com](https://blondiesstl.com)_ 3. Assuming no errors occur you should get a confirmation and summary of the number of cells found to change but 0 changes made 4. Re-run the search replace with Run as Dry Run deselected * This should replace any references in your database to resources on your server with http:// to https:// and remove any errors. * Other options you can explore are: - Any options your host may offer to automatically forward any http requests to https - Run your website through CloudFlare who provide free SSL and also offer options for auto-forwarding to https * Hope that helps. * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-and-mixed-content-errors/#post-12911450) * I don’t if you already have, try reviewing this tutorial: [https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-fix-the-mixed-content-error-in-wordpress-step-by-step/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-fix-the-mixed-content-error-in-wordpress-step-by-step/) * Also try clearing all cache (plugins, browser,server…). * Thread Starter [itseno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itseno/) * (@itseno) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-and-mixed-content-errors/#post-12911787) * [@dominic_ks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominic_ks/) Thank you for the help. We tried running the better search replace plugin and were able to change a good amount of the site’s http to https requests. * The search with the following: [http://blondiesstl.com%26/#8221](http://blondiesstl.com%26/#8221) did not result in any items, it said 0 cells found and 0 changes made. * We called our hosting provider as well, Hostek, to discuss automatically forwarding any http requests to https, but even when we changed the .htaccess to accomplish this, no results: * # Only trigger rule if a non-ssl port is being used RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}! 443 # Redirect to HTTPS RewriteRule (.*) [https://www.example.com/$1](https://www.example.com/$1)[ R=301] * Finally, we explored Cloudflare, but we have our own dedicated SSL, so we aren’t sure how Cloudfare would interact with our site. * Do you have any additional advice? * [dominic_ks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominic_ks/) * (@dominic_ks) * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-and-mixed-content-errors/#post-12915709) * Hello, * I don’t know where some of those characters came from, you’re just looking to search this: - [http://blondiesstl.com](http://blondiesstl.com) * And replace with this: - [https://blondiesstl.com](https://blondiesstl.com) * i.e. replace instances of your site url that only has http with https. * I’m not very big on using .htaccess manually for this purpose, but couldn’t help but notice that your pasted code had example.com in it, I assume you changed it for your own domain…? * CloudFlare – yes the idea here is that you use their SSL certificate rather than your own, but just looks like you’re using a regular free LetsEncrypt certificate? If so, I have found that they work as well as each other. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘SSL and Mixed Content Errors’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [dominic_ks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominic_ks/) * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ssl-and-mixed-content-errors/#post-12915709) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics