With the release of WordPress 5.7 a new core feature was introduced. Users who already have an SSL certificate, but still have to change their URL’s from ‘HTTP’ to ‘HTTPS’ can now update their website to use SSL under the Site Health section in WordPress.
But what's the difference?
And more importantly, what are the extra features from Really Simple SSL? Below you will find the differences and extra features.
Really Simple SSL
- Changing the WordPress and Site Address to HTTPS.
- Migrating content to HTTPS, this includes non-www and www. Also includes a wider range of content on your website.
- Redirect to HTTPS
- Rest API redirect over HTTPS
- Ability to apply the redirect via .htaccess. This will increase performance and won't affect caching.
- Detailed server checks to conform with hosting settings, for example Load Balancers or CDN's.
- Permalinks verification after SSL migration, to prevent 404's
- Specific Multisite capabilities for different configurations
- User-interface to control your SSL settings to your needs.
- Remotely reverting settings
- Dedicated support and feature updates
Site Health Update
- Changing the WordPress and Site address to HTTPS.
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Migrating content to HTTPS The migration is restricted to your exact home_url, and won't consider all HTML elements on your website.
If you have any further questions about redirects, or about any other features of the Really Simple SSL plugin: feel free to let us know!
