Securing our WordPress Website

freeCodeCamp — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:00:00 +0000

By Clark Jason Ngo

First step looking for free SSL

Search for “hostgator free ssl”:

Then i got a WordPress plugin suggestion for SSL:

Really Simple SSL
_No setup required! You only need an SSL certificate, and this plugin will do the rest._wordpress.org

I went ahead and logged in as admin in our WordPress site.

Installed and activated the Really Simple SSL plugin.

Upon checking the lock icon in the web address. it said “content not secure”.

i inspected the WordPress website and had a warning of Mixed Content from the background image we have.

It looked something like this:

I Googled for “fixing Mixed Content”:

I found fix Mixed Content problem by removing the background image and re-uploading the same image.

Some images were not fixed by re-uploading images right away.

It was complaining that an image was uploaded unsecurely (in an http).

After that, i re-uploaded the images.

Thanks for reading!

1) I googled "buy godaddy ssl"

3) It redirected me to the my billing page and I click buy

4) Go to My Products page and redeem your SSL

5) Click on Managed WordPress, choose the Website you want the SSL installed and click Manage

6) Click Install. Once installation is successful it should show Enabled.

7) Check your Website. It should now have a Lock icon, meaning it is secured. =)