Category: NERD

When you shift your site from Non-SSL to SSL, you may get mixed content SSL errors. So what are these Mixed Content Errors.

Since earlier your site was running on Non-SSL, your site have pages or requests for HTTP, which is non-secure connection. Now after switching to SSL your site still may have older requests, posts and pages which can trigger warnings of non-secure website while browsing.

In simple words, Mixed Content is url’s of videos, images, css etc which are HTTP but load on HTTPS request. These sometime confuse the users as well as browsers to identify the content is scure or not. For example if one typed https://moonshotcentral.com/ in a browser and the site is having a tag request like <img src=”https://moonshotcentral.com/image.jpg”>, this location is mixed content as image.jpg will not loaded or give warning to users of nonsecure page over an encrypted connection as https://moonshotcentral.com/.

This can reality hurt your website performance. Imagine user accessing your site and received an error saying do you want to process, site is not secure. Most of user wont click unless you are really famous. Specially for small blogs this should not be ignored as their site ranking also may go down.

Fix Mixed Content Error in WordPress

First Step:

You need to make your URL based on HTTPS and doing this by going to every post or images etc is a tedious process. Imagine having thousands of posts, this can be nightmare. Since links or URL of the WordPress post are stores in MySql database. You this do this by running a MySQL query in a single click. Awseome.

You can run your MySQL query by accessing your phpMyAdmin panel. But if your don’t want to dirty your hands, you can simply do this installing a plugin called WP-DBManager. This plugin help you to keep your WordPress site database updated. When you install the plugin you can see that there is option called “Run SQL Query”. Click on this option, copy and paste query below in the box provided and click run. The replace the domain name with your domain name and some themes may have tables called wp_posts, so you can changes the table name from wpnu_posts to wp_posts

UPDATE wpnu_posts SET `post_content` = REPLACE (`post_content`, ‘src=”https://moonshotcentral.com/’, ‘src=”https://moonshotcentral.com/’);

What this query will do is that it was update table wpnu_posts (or wp_posts in some cases) and replace all your non HTTP urls with HTTPs urls in one go.

Second Step:

Make sure that website URL in the General setting is set to HTTPS. Below is a screenshot for reference.

Third Step:

Since you don’t want to leave any stone unturned, why not force all URLs including the Admin login to HTTPS.

Locate your .htaccess file in root folder of the website folder and add the code below:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

For your Admin login pages you can do this by editing your wp-config.php file. This file can be found in your root folder of the website directory. Download the file on your computer local drive and open in notepad or any other editor to edit the php file. Just add the below code in the start at <?php.

define (‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);
define(‘FORCE_SSL_LOGIN’, true);

Fourth Step:

This step is for those people who are using Cloudflare CDN services for their website. Login to your CloudFlare account, select your site and go to Cryto section from the tab. Make sure your SSL is atleast selected as “Flexible” and Scroll down below and enable the Automatic HTTPS Rewrites.

Selected Strict full SLL in Cloudflare may throw error, so be slow and choose wisely depending on your hosting capabilities.

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If your website is still having issues with Mixed Content, you can try these two plugins:

1. SSL Insecure Content Fixer

2. Really Simple SSL

We hope your our post was able to help you out to solve the Mixed Content Errors on your WordPress site. If your want to check that your site is working file you can click here to check it out.

Make sure that you clear your website cache before testing.

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WordPress basics is like a starter pack to get a feel of WordPress and knowing the system quickly. WordPress is becoming popular day by day and has become the most preferred blogging platform for bloggers. If we talk about figures, WordPress accounts for about 25% of websites and more that 50% of websites use WordPress for content management system (CMS). The simplicity of WordPress makes it so popular and you can actually use it without any knowledge of coding.

WordPress was initially launched in the year 2003 purely as a blogging platform but in recent times is now being used for full fledged websites. Since the vast number of users have no knowledge of coding, sometimes they struggle to understand the system. We thought it would be good to write this article to make WordPress users’s life easy. Please note this article is only for those who have successfully installed WordPress and want to explore more.

These are ten WordPress basics that you should know.

1. Admin Login: When installing WordPress, some users find it difficult to navigate from where you access the admin page. Unless you use some plugin which makes you login from front page, you need to access your WordPress site from yoursite/wp-admin. The wp-admin is the directory where your login file is and you need to point to that directory.

2. Plugins and Widgets: WordPress comes with basic feature which you need for blogging. If you want more features, then you will need to install plugins. What are plugins? it is a piece of program, which can be installed in WordPress to extend your website’s capabilities. Who creates plugins? There are companies and freelance programmers which create plugins. Some plugins are free to use and some are not free. You need to search the right one for your site. There are more than 50,000 plugins available for WordPress.

WordPress widgets is the functionality which helps you manage the sidebars, footer etc of your site. The default widget that you will find is search, calendar, tag cloud etc. Plugins and themes also have their own widgets.

3. Difference between page and post: Pages are the static contents on your WordPress site. There are few contents you may like to keep as static like About us, Contact Us, Services etc. These are the contents which are usually general for most websites and help users to know about your website. The post in WordPress is the real content which is the reason your user visit your website. Posts are the articles you write according to the theme of your website.

4. Users: WordPress offers you multi user capabilities. You can have your whole team working and posting articles on your site at same time. The system offers you different options for different user capability you assign. WordPress offers five categories, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber.

Their powers are as follows:

• Administrator: Obviously Admin is the king with all the powers and can do all the task.
• Editor: This user is to manage your content on the website. The editor can create new posts, edit posts and even delete posts, including that of other users.
• Author: This person can create and manage their own post only.
• Contributor: As the name suggests, this person is just a contributor. The user can submit the post but cannot publish it. Only the Administrator or Editor can publish this user’s post.
• Subscriber: This is user is for those using WordPress as community or e-commerce site. This user can only manage their profile.

However, if you are not happy with how WordPress has defined the roles, you install this plugin and to assign powers as you like.

5. Media: Uploading pictures or video is very easy in WordPress. The process is just drag and drop. You can even add a picture while you write your post. You would notice that when you upload a picture on WordPress, it creates a number of sizes of the same picture. This feature is in WordPress so that you don’t have to waste time in re-sizing your images for your post or thumbnails.