Currently, there is no need to talk about the need to operate any site together with an SSL/TLS certificate, even for an ordinary, static site or blog. No website owner wants their website to be marked as dangerous by the browser. In short, you must have a certificate for the website. The certificate itself is not a problem, but redirection to the encrypted HTTPS version is often difficult. If you are dealing with redirecting to HTTPS under WordPress, you are in the right place and the text below will teach you how to do it flawlessly.
Prerequisites for this tutorial
To use encrypted HTTPS communication, you must have an SSL/TLS certificate generated and installed. Most web hosts today offer a basic SSL certificate for free. For example, on Czechia.com you have the option of simply adding an SSL certificate to each of your domains that is located on the DNS of this provider.
So there is no problem to activate the address with https. However, what may surprise the website owner is the situation when the HTTP address is not automatically redirected to the encrypted version of HTTPS. We will show you how to solve this problem very easily under WordPress below.
Redirecting to HTTPs using a plugin
The easiest solution to resolve redirects to HTTPS in WordPress is to use the Really Simple SSL plugin . The correctness of this choice is underlined by more than 4 million active installations of this plugin. In the next section, we’ll show you how to set up redirects and more.
We search for Really Simple SSL in the taiwan phone number data plugin repository and click the Install button . After installation, we activate the plugin . Don’t worry, the redirect will not be set to HTTPS at this time.
A dialog message pops up above the list of installed plugins, informing us about the possibility of switching to HTTPS.
Even before confirming this message, I recommend checking by manually entering the HTTPS addthe HTTPS version. If your make sure your contact website loads without problems, we can continue by clicking the blue button Go ahead, activate SSL!
Additional settings
Due to the transition to the secure version, you will have to log in to the WordPress administration again. After entering your bz lists credentials, visit the settings page for this plugin. You can find it in the left menu, under the Settings section , the SSL item. An overview with the default/detected plugin settings.