Description
Really Simple SSL automatically detects your settings and configures your website to run over https.
To keep it lightweight, the options are kept to a minimum. The entire site will move to SSL.
THREE SIMPLE STEPS FOR SETUP:
- Get an SSL certificate (can’t do that for you, sorry).
- Activate this plugin
- Enable SSL with one click
Always backup before you go! If you do not have a sound backup policy, start having one! For a snapshot, install duplicator.
Really Simple SSL is on GitHub as well!
LOVE REALLY SIMPLE SSL?
Hopefully this plugin save you some hours of work. If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, you might consider buying the premium, which includes
some cool features.
PRO FEATURES
- The mixed content scan, which shows you what you have to do if you don’t have the green lock yet
- The option to enable HTTP Strict Transport Security
- The option to configure your site for the HSTS preload list
- Mixed Content Fixer for the back-end
- More detailed feedback on the configuration page.
- Certificate expiration check: get an email when your SSL certificate is about to expire.
- Premium support
WHAT DOES THE PLUGIN ACTUALLY DO
- The plugin handles most issues that WordPress has with ssl, like the much discussed loadbalancer issue, or when there are no server variables set at all.
- All incoming requests are redirected to https. If possible with .htaccess, or else with javascript.
- The site url and home url are changed to https.
- Your insecure content is fixed by replacing all http:// urls with https://, except hyperlinks to other domains. Dynamically, so no database changes are made (except for the siteurl and homeurl).
Source: Really Simple SSL
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