Some websites using JetPack have Photon activated. Photon is an image acceleration and editing service, where the images are served from the WordPress cloud. In some cases, there are issues with this service when moving to SSL. If you encounter links as these in your site that are giving you 400 or 404 errors, you …
When you’ve activated Really Simple SSL on your site, in some cases you might notice your site has become slower. I specifically built this plugin to be fast: most of the work is done in the back-end, which doesn’t harm your performance. First, take a look at this independent test: https://plugintests.com/plugins/really-simple-ssl/latest. You will see the test indicates …
It sometimes 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. You can add it to your …
Really Simple SSL adds a html comment to the source of your website. Since 2.4 this is a data attribute. This makes it easy to check if the mixed content fixer is active. This is necessary because sometimes other plugins block the mixed content fixer. If the comment does not appear, you know you have a …
The problem: services that don’t support SSL I think the best way to go is to get your entire site on SSL. But sometimes there are services that are not really up to date, they don’t provide an SSL certificate on their service. Especially iframes often cause this problem. Browsers simply won’t load a http …