Author: Leon Wimmenhoeve
How to exclude a URL from the mixed content fixer
Sometimes it is necessary to exclude a certain URL from the mixed content fixer. For those who don’t know already: the mixed content fixer in Really Simple SSL changes all URLs from http to https, except for hyperlinks to other domains. This can be easily accomplished with a filter, which you can add to your functions.php. It will execute after the Mixed content fixer has done its work, so you have to replace the URLs back to http, like this:
How to fix blocked resources that were not found in any file or post
If you have Really Simple SSL Pro installed, you might get the warning that your site contains references to an external resource that cannot load over SSL. For example, if a page contains this HTML: <img src=”http://www.not-your-domain.com/image.jpg”> And that domain does not have an SSL certificate, this image won’t load on SSL. In this particular warning, the link was found on your website but the scan couldn’t locate it’s source in your website files or database posts. This URL has
How to fix posts with blocked resources on domains without SSL certificate
If you have Really Simple SSL Pro installed, you might get the warning that some posts contain a reference to an external resource that cannot load over SSL. This mostly concerns hot-linked images. An example: if a post contains an image that is actually located on another domain: <img src=”http://www.not-your-domain.com/image.jpg”> and that domain does not have an SSL certificate, this image won’t load on SSL. This might also happen with javascript files (.js), or stylesheets (.css) Solution: click the “fix” button
How to fix CSS and JS files with mixed content on other domains
If you have Really Simple SSL Pro installed, you might get the warning that your site contains references to JS or CSS files on other domains which in turn contain non-secure links. For example, your site might include a .js file from a service you run on your site. If this JavaScript file, in turn, includes another file over http://, this will result in mixed content errors. To fix this, you can try to ask the file owner on that
How to fix CSS and JS files with mixed content
If you have Really Simple SSL Pro installed, you might get the warning that your site contains JS or CSS files which in turn contain non-secure links. For example, your site probably has style.css included. If this stylesheet uses a background image, this might look like this: body { background-image: url(“http://www.domain.com/paper.gif”); } This may cause mixed content issues because Really Simple SSL can’t fix this dynamically, as it is located in a CSS file. You can get four kinds of