There is some bad advice going around regarding updating URLs in the WordPress database when migrating your WordPress site from HTTP to HTTPS. There are tons of examples of MySQL queries that do a “find and replace” of the URLs in your WordPress database, and they’ll change the URLs from HTTP to HTTPS. The bad … Read more →
This is how you can force your whole site to use HTTPS, except for one page. This will do a 301 redirect to HTTPS on all pages of your site, except for the one URL that you will specify. This allows you to keep one URL on HTTP, for whatever reason that you may need. … Read more →
Here are steps that you can take to renew your Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for sites hosted on GoDaddy shared cPanel hosting. While these steps have been tested on Godaddy shared cPanel hosting, they should work for any shared hosting company that has cPanel. These steps are for multi-domain certificates (also known as a “UC” … Read more →
These are the steps to create and install a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on your GoDaddy shared hosting account. While these steps have been tested on Godaddy shared cPanel hosting, they should work for any shared hosting company that has cPanel. This doesn’t work with GoDaddy’s classic web hosting because it doesn’t have cPanel. This … Read more →
This is useful if you created custom menu links for your WordPress menu, in the WordPress admin –> “Appearance” –> “Menus”, and now you need to change the link URLs from “http” to “https” because you are now using an SSL certificate. These are the MySQL statements that let you make those changes directly in … Read more →
Redirect your Godaddy domain from HTTP to HTTPS, but only apply it to one domain. Or, the second example shows you how to redirect all your GoDaddy domains except one domain. These are necessary if you are hosting multiple “Add-on” domains in your Linux/cPanel hosting account. If you use Godaddy’s rules for “Redirect HTTP to … Read more →