Category: Mixed Content
Mixed content when using Divi theme
Once in a while, we come across users who experience mixed content issues when using Divi theme and Divi builder. Divi uses its own built-in caching mechanism. To fix the mixed content the Divi cache has to be cleared. To do this, navigate to the ‘Divi’ menu in the left menu bar in the WordPress admin area and press ‘Theme options’: 1. Legacy versions of Divi If you’re using a newer version of Divi, please navigate directly to #2.
Locating mixed content in widgets
Sometimes the scan finds mixed content in widgets. If you see this message, it’s likely that there is a link to an image in one of your widgets that isn’t available over https://. The scan helps you locate the widget in which the mixed content is found. In the screenshot below you can see a result from the scan: First, the file which cannot load over https:// is shown. The scan details two things: the widget area in which the
Hyperlinks to external urls getting replaced to https
There are two situations where a normal hyperlink to an external URL could get replaced to https The website domain is part of the external domain If for example, the external URL is http://domain.com.au, while the website URL is http://domain.com, this can happen. Really Simple SSL replaces all instances of the own website domain in the HTML to https. In this edge case, the external URL gets replaced as well: replace http://domain.com in http://domain.com.au to https, and the external link
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