{"id":19004508,"date":"2026-08-27T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wap-ai-assistant-requires-https-to-use-wordpress-application-passwords\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:05:10","slug":"wap-ai-assistant-requires-https-to-use-wordpress-application-passwords","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wap-ai-assistant-requires-https-to-use-wordpress-application-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"WAP AI Assistant requires HTTPS to use WordPress Application Passwords&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My WordPress website www.insightandenergy.com started showing the following in the admin section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WAP AI Assistant<\/strong>\u00a0requires HTTPS to use WordPress Application Passwords. The AI chat widget will be hidden until this site is served over HTTPS.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2020\/11\/05\/application-passwords-integration-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site is fully SSL, and I already put in code in wp-config.php that would work for proxy servers.<br \/><br \/>The site runs WP Rocket with caching and with WP Rocket&#8217;s CDN, uses Wordfence (obviously), and RSS (Really Simple Security) and .htaccess \/ web.config to force SSL, which has worked for years already. I don&#8217;t know where this warning originates from, since the site is using HTTPS already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TIA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19004508","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19004508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19004508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19004508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}