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A post shared by WordPress Developer (@riotcustoms) on Mar 8, 2019 at 11:02am PST

Install free Let’s Encrypt

Superior hosting like SiteGround, GreenGeeks, and Flywheel included Free SSL’s on active hosting plans. You can install them with a click of a button.

Step One:

From the cPanel
install ssl to wordpress

Step Two:

Click on Let’s Encyrpt
install ssl to wordpress

Manually Installing A SSL

Now I know the first question you’re going to ask is where to purchase one of these magical certs and the answer is Namecheap.

Step One:

Getting A CSR
Locate and click on SSL/TLS Manager
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Click on Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
install ssl to wordpress
Once you filled out the domain inforamtion you’ll then click on Generate. Copy & Past that into Namecheap.

Step Two:

Validating Your Domain
Namecheap gives you 3 choices on how you want to validate your domain.
Email validation
HTTP-based validation
DNS-based validation

The easiest way would be to use email validation.
install ssl to wordpress

Step Three”

Installing the Cert
Head on back to the cPanel and click on Manage SSL Sites. Once you select yor domain hit autofill then Install Certificate.
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Force HTTPS

Change the Settings / Home URL to HTTPS
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This will log you out so don’t freak out!

Add this to the wp-config.php file via FTP to force SSL on your dashboard pages too.


define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);

Add the following rewrites to your .htaccess file via FTP to redirect any incoming links to their HTTPS counterparts.
Change “yoursite.com” to your domain name. On the third line, use the new URL(with or without the www – whichever is your preferred URL).


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Troubleshooting:

Test out your SSL using Why No Padlock?

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