Så här add to gratis SSL i WordPress med Let’s Encrypt

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1. Syed Balkhi says

   sep 5, 2024 vid 2:24 e m

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2. Moinuddin Waheed says

   dec 16, 2023 vid 1:44 f m

   I was struggling to get an SSL certificate installed on one of my clients website who has already bought hosting from GoDaddy.
   but there is no such option inside its dashboard like that of provided by bluehost, dreamhost and others.
   Thanks for the detailed instructions for installing SSL certificate on websites.
   I don’t know if GoDaddy has also any such option which I am unable to find?

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     dec 18, 2023 vid 1:07 e m

     You would need to check with GoDaddy’s support for their currently available options.

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   • Jiří Vaněk says

     jun 10, 2024 vid 6:32 f m

     GoDaddy has an admin interface and within it, a so-called product page. Here, you can install SSL on your website quite easily. In this admin interface, there is a ”Manage All” tab, and this is where the SSL certificates are hidden. You click on the new certificate and then simply select the domain for which you want to install the certificate. They have a wizard for this. It’s quite simple, just a bit ”hidden”.

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3. mukesh jethva says

   aug 15, 2020 vid 5:22 f m

   My website is hosted on the shared hosting. How can i install Let’s Encrypt SSL on my website?

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     aug 17, 2020 vid 1:52 e m

     You would need to check with your specific hosting provider for the specifics allowed.

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4. balu says

   dec 3, 2018 vid 10:35 e m

   Is Let’s Encrypt option Available in HostGator?

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     dec 4, 2018 vid 5:49 e m

     Hi Balu,

     Yes, you can install Let’s Encrypt free SSL in HostGator.

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5. Shana says

   aug 21, 2018 vid 10:03 e m

   Thanks for this great article. I have Go Daddy and my site is now secure. The Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate expires in 90 days. Do I need to ”renew” the certificate every 90 days? If so, can I just press the ”renew” link or must I go through all the steps required to install the certificate? Thanks so much!

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     aug 26, 2018 vid 2:20 f m

     Hi Shana,

     Most hosting companies automatically renew the certificate.

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6. Jorgelina says

   aug 8, 2018 vid 6:01 e m

   Hi there, I could migrate my brand new page to https with no problems with your method, but when I tried to do it for my older page it didn’t work. I couldn’t log in into my dashboard, do you know what could be happening? I did everything as you said.
   Many thanks!

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     aug 9, 2018 vid 6:58 e m

     Hi Jorgelina,

     You probably meant website when you said page. It is harder for us to guess what may have gone wrong. Try undoing the steps you took and then try again.

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7. Anson says

   jun 28, 2018 vid 10:26 f m

   Hi,

   Using Let’s Encrypt or Cloudflare SSL, which is better? and what is the difference.

   Please advise.
   Thanks,
   Anson

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8. Biplab Das says

   nov 17, 2017 vid 5:00 f m

   Hi Syed ..thanks for this great article. I learned a clear idea about SSL and the importance of https. I already installed SSL to my website. It really help me to get higher ranking on google SERP. Previously I knew SSL certificate is paid. But now it’s getting free on Let’s Encrypt. Lot of thanks to you for written this valuable post

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   • WPBeginner Support says

     nov 17, 2017 vid 6:50 f m

     Hi Biplab Das,

     Glad you found the article helpful

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9. Phet says

   okt 2, 2017 vid 1:18 e m

   Would this be a good alternative to other paid SSL certificat when building an Online Store?

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10. Mario says

    jul 25, 2017 vid 4:25 f m

    How should you change your CloudFlare settings after installing Let’s Encrypt certificate and switching your site over HTTPS? I refer expecially to the ”Crypto” tab.

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11. serouj baghdassarian says

    jul 4, 2017 vid 10:42 f m

    Hello, i just activated the SSL by SIteGround (enforcing https), and i can see it working but with the warning ”Your connection to this site is not secure”.. is this normal?

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      jul 5, 2017 vid 3:50 f m

      Hi Serouj,

      No, your site is not secure yet. Please follow the instructions in the article, or ask your hosting provider for support. They will be able to fix it for you or point you in the right direction.

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12. Sunny says

    maj 30, 2017 vid 8:48 f m

    After switching to https through SiteGround everything was fine excepted that I lost my social shares. Can you make a tutorial to get them back. (I used SumoMe social sharing plugin. )

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13. Okoto Enigma says

    maj 10, 2017 vid 7:26 e m

    I’ve migrated, performed 301 redirect, and changed the url to https:// in Google analytics. But now, how will I choose my preferred domain in search console? It keeps telling me to verify ownership of the www but it doesn’t show me how to verify it. Can you help me?

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14. vamshi says

    apr 24, 2017 vid 2:51 e m

    i migrated from http to https still it is shwoing insafe and its redirecting to another country website whats the issue? Please now im unable to login to my wordpress can u please help me?

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15. Dillip says

    apr 24, 2017 vid 10:59 f m

    Can you let me know how to do it in HostGator? I have checked before but seems like there are some pending issues with the hosting provider and under consideration.

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16. Matus says

    feb 28, 2017 vid 1:03 e m

    If I can ask, why you’re not using on your website SSL from Let’s Encrypt?

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17. Stav says

    feb 21, 2017 vid 6:09 e m

    thx for the infos guys!
    I love this blog and it helped me alot.
    I´m using Really simple SSL with the shared SSL I got from my hoster. The problem is that the redirection from http to https works fine just on the homepag. Other pages dont redirect. and The RSSSL plugin is updating every second day but not solving the problem. Any sollution for this problem?

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18. allan says

    jan 30, 2017 vid 8:01 e m

    thanks! I’ve been looking for this integration for hours and even thou my host offers let’s encrypt support, it doesn’t offer documentation on how to implement it.

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19. Matthew Granat says

    jan 26, 2017 vid 5:03 e m

    Awesome article! Just switched about 60 sites to siteground and couldn’t be happier. Finding out about and using Let’s Encrypt with the SSL plugin is like the icing on the cake!

    thanks again!

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20. Tony Bright says

    jan 15, 2017 vid 6:58 e m

    OK, I’m trying to get my head around this. I will still need a dedicated IP Bluehost and then I can install the free SSL by Let’s Encrypt? And, this would be a better option than the free SSL from BH, right?

    I am going to be developing an ecomm site for fitness apparel and gear.

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21. Douglas Barnes says

    dec 19, 2016 vid 1:28 e m

    I installed letsencryprt on an Ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server via the shell. All the WordPress files are white screen. I tested the site in QUALSYS, which checked out. I set up an hml test page in the root difectory that works with https. It’s just the WP pages.

    I am thinking that I need to do some configuration in the default-ssl.conf file, though my attemot at that managed to break the white screen and make the site disappear. Any thought?

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22. Suhinder lal says

    dec 11, 2016 vid 1:57 f m

    I have reached to a wp plugin WP Encrypt to setup lets encrypt on WordPress site. Please guide me if it is worth installing for free SSL by lets encrypt

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23. Ian Rayner says

    nov 29, 2016 vid 4:45 e m

    This has created a nightmare for me.

    On my local dev site (I use MAMP) I used the dashboard – settings – general to change the URL’s from ”http” to ”https”. As soon as I saved the change I got a message saying localhost refused connection. I can’t log in to the dash board to change the url back – I get the same message and the address in the bar is https://localhost/mysite/.

    I have tried fiddling with the wp-login.php to not force SSL, to no avail.

    It’s a horrible catch 22. Any ideas how I can get out of this problem?

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      nov 30, 2016 vid 5:54 f m

      Hi Ian,

      You can revert back your site urls to http by following these steps.

      Go to /Applications/Mamp/htdocs folder on your computer. Locate your WordPress installation (propbably in mysite folder) and then go to /wp-content/themes/your-current-theme/ folder. Replace your-current-theme with the directory of the theme you were using on your website. In your theme folder you need to edit functions.php file.

      Add this code in your functions.php file at the end.

      define( 'WP_HOME', 'http:/localhost/mysite' );
      define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://localhost/mysite' );
      
      

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      Save changes and try accessing your website on http://localhost/mysite

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24. Markus Martin says

    nov 5, 2016 vid 5:59 e m

    Hi Syed. I tried to install this certificate multiple times after activating the Really Simple SSL Plugin but it kept breaking my site and returning an Error 500. I do not understand how to create the certificate using the letsencrypt website so I used this site instead and then installed manually on my site. My hosts told me I can install SSL even though am on shared hosting. What could be the problem?

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      nov 6, 2016 vid 8:24 e m

      Try adding SSL after deactivating all other plugins on your website. Then reactivate them one by one until you are able to reproduce the error.

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      • Markus Martin says

        nov 11, 2016 vid 1:59 e m

        Thank you. I did the same and I found about two to three plugins that caused my site to fail. Despite that, the SSL breaks the CSS for my site. I had to remove it entirely and just stay without SSL.

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25. jelvir says

    okt 26, 2016 vid 1:52 e m

    Any tips for someone who is self hosting? I’m hosting my small website running in wordpress in a raspberry pi on a LAMP environment.

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26. Luong says

    sep 19, 2016 vid 2:09 f m

    Great article, I just activated the ssl in the hosting panel then install the plugin, no more configuration. Thank you.

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27. Sorin Ciprian says

    sep 13, 2016 vid 2:58 e m

    Thanks for the tutorial! May I ask, once I have activated ssl on my domain do i need to update the sitemap of the site on google webmaster tools?

    Thanks!

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28. Facun says

    jul 19, 2016 vid 2:35 e m

    Hello,

    Very nice article, thank you!

    I was wondering how to implement Let’s Encrypt only in certain pages (Woocommerce and contact pages for example).

    Thanks,
    Facun

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29. Matthew says

    jun 22, 2016 vid 7:13 f m

    I’m really glad about what Let’s Encrypt is doing; making encryption easily accessible to everyone is really awesome. Good to see web hosts implementing it for their customers also. My host, StackPress, is among those hosts who now offer Let’s Encrypt and I’m pretty stoked about it.

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30. John Pescod says

    maj 17, 2016 vid 4:37 e m

    I am relatively new to WordPress so I have read a lot on WPBeginner. I’m starting a new website and want to use SSL from the start – that’s how I came across this article. My Belgian hosting company does not provide an automated way to install Let’s Encrypt, but it does allow me to install my own SSL without having to buy/install the certificate through them.
    In your article you write ”Updating WordPress URLs After Setting up SSL – After setting up the Free SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt” but you don’t write how this process is actually done manually (unless I have missed it completely!). On the Let’s Encrypt website on their ”Getting Started” webpage they refer to the installation of ”Certbot” for this purpose, and then it all becomes as good as Chinese for me…
    The link imbedded in your text, ”After setting up the Free SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt,” just sent me off to a GoDaddy promo for webhosting, whereas I expected it was going to refer to a useful text explaining how to get a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt.
    I was hoping that your article would tell people who’s host do not automate the Let’s Encrypt installation how to complete this themselves, but after getting to the end of your article, I am (and surely many others) are left without the info we were hoping for.

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      maj 18, 2016 vid 2:30 f m

      Please look at the section ’Installing Let’s Encrypt Free SSL on Other Web Hosts’. We have given example of BlueHost, a web hosting company that does not offer easy tools to automatically setup Let’s Encrypt. But they do have a page on how to setup 3rd party SSL certificates. You can also ask your web hosting company to help you setup SSL.

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      • John Pescod says

        maj 18, 2016 vid 10:47 f m

        I’m sorry I didn’t mention that I had also read the BlueHost link. In the info BlueHost provide they say, ”Provide the CSR to the SSL vendor of your choice. They will exchange it for a CRT file.” I’ve already created a CSR that is ready to be forwarded to a 3rd party for a SSL certificate and I’d like to use Let’s Encrypt for this. But nowhere on the Let’s Encrypt website can I find a way to submit my CSR. They have a support page, but this is full of technical questions and answers, I found nothing that says how to obtain a SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt using a CSR. Other (paid) SSL certificate providers have a simple and obvious way of letting you submit your CSR to get a SSL cert. in return.

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        • Saif says

          sep 17, 2016 vid 9:07 f m

          I have personally tried installing Let’s Encrypt on Bluehost, but failed. I talked with the customer support and they told me that they do not support Let’s Encrypt certificates. And he referred me to get a paid one. Their shared hosting sucks these days.

31. Bartek says

    apr 15, 2016 vid 5:22 e m

    Dreamhost told me I can’t use Let’s Encrypt and CloudFlare at the same time. I therefore signed up for Cloudflare outside of Dreamhost because they offer free encryption of their own…somehow. I can’t figure out how to get a certificate created and put on my site and Dreamhost isn’t helping since it’s a Cloudflare product. Cloudflare isn’t helping cause it’s a free plan. I’m wondering if anyone has any simple insights into this?

    Have a great day in The Matrix!
    VB

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    • vijay says

      apr 19, 2016 vid 7:46 f m

      Cloudflare doesn’t support HTTPS for free plans. So you need a premium Cloudflare account if you want to use SSL.

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      • Bartek says

        apr 19, 2016 vid 8:11 f m

        Hi,

        Maybe you’re right but they say they do and the options to turn it on are right there for me to choose ranging from strict to self signed…

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32. Ruud says

    apr 14, 2016 vid 9:17 e m

    Please note, on SiteGround Let’s Encrypt won’t work with the free plan from CloudFlare!

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33. Rakesh says

    mar 25, 2016 vid 8:02 f m

    A very good information. Please help me to add ssl to my website, i am using Godaddy shared hosting, could anyone help to add Let’s Encrypt SSL To my site.

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    • kenny says

      okt 18, 2016 vid 12:21 e m

      Go daddy told me that they do not allow lets encrypt on their shared hosting.

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34. Dean Bartley says

    mar 21, 2016 vid 8:57 e m

    Very interesting stuff. This site has been teaching me a lot of stuff.

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35. AHMED says

    mar 10, 2016 vid 8:53 f m

    Hello Syed! Great tutorial. I just want to ask when this error occurs whether its the time when user buys, login to website or every time if web does not have a ssl certificate. For example, my web don’t offer login, shopping system so do i need a ssl certificate. Whether this error will appear or not??
    thanks

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36. Jay A says

    mar 3, 2016 vid 2:34 e m

    I have a WordPress site running on InMotion hosting. I contacted them today and they basically told me that I’m free to install it but that they won’t offer any support or help doing it. Has anyone set up Let’s Encrypt for a InMotion WP site? I made it to the SSL/TLS manager in my cPanel but had no idea what to do from there. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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37. John says

    feb 20, 2016 vid 1:55 e m

    Hello Syed,
    Thanks for the article. Very interesting since I recently joined Siteground and of course had Let’s Encrypt installed. Works great on pc, but …. is untrusted on mobile devices. Have you heard about this phenomenon or could it be a Siteground problem (configuration of their webservers)?

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      feb 21, 2016 vid 11:48 e m

      Please contact SiteGround support. They will be able to help you better.

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    • Ashutosh Kumar says

      feb 29, 2016 vid 12:53 f m

      It is not problem of Siteground.
      Letsencrypt SSL is not trusted on most of the mobile device browsers

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    • Rick Zich says

      jul 29, 2016 vid 1:14 e m

      This issue may have been fixed. Have have a let’s encrypt cert and it is working on both desktop and mobile using woocommerce. At least on the iphone safari browser. It is interesting though because you have tap into the address to see the https as it does not show in the normal address.

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    • Luna Lunapiena says

      aug 11, 2016 vid 10:59 e m

      I just tried it on multiple sites/domains. Appears to be working fine!

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      • Luna Lunapiena says

        aug 11, 2016 vid 11:00 e m

        tested on iOS 9.2 and 9.3, Safari & Chrome – seems to work fine on both

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38. Melanie Lewis says

    feb 16, 2016 vid 3:54 e m

    Thanks for this great post and the step by step instructions! I had previously purchased a certificate but didn’t take the right steps to get is installed properly. Your post helped me get everything in order!

    I also have the same question as Tasos: Do we uninstall the Really Simple SSL plugin after everything is all set, or does it need to remain running?

    Thanks for all your educational efforts!

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    • WPBeginner Support says

      feb 16, 2016 vid 11:08 e m

      You will need to keep the plugin installed and activated.

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39. Justin says

    feb 16, 2016 vid 8:44 f m

    I suppose one would have to update webmaster tools once this is done right?

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    • Arjun Chandran says

      apr 24, 2016 vid 1:54 f m

      If you set the site url and and homepage url with https then WordPress will automatically redirect visitors, updating you webmaster tool is also a good idea.

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40. Senthilkumar says

    feb 16, 2016 vid 12:45 f m

    Thanks a lot for this article. I have a question though. I read somewhere enabling SSL will affect the adsense income? Is it true?

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    • Editorial Staff says

      feb 16, 2016 vid 6:17 f m

      Honestly don’t see why it would impact your Adsense revenue. We have heard that some folks reported their traffic dropping after they switched to SSL but that’s mainly because Google needs some time to re-index everything.

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41. Andrew says

    feb 15, 2016 vid 2:01 e m

    It’s great to see SiteGround is constantly innovating their web hosting services. I have multiple customers who I’ve placed on SiteGround and never looked back. Adding the free SSL certificate is an interesting service. Does the certificate come with standard web hosting? Is the certificate a premium option? Either way, the tutorial was extremely helpful! Especially with Google factoring in websites with http vs. https.

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    • Editorial Staff says

      feb 16, 2016 vid 6:25 f m

      It’s available on all of their accounts from what I can tell.

      -Syed

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42. Tasos Perte Tzortzis says

    feb 15, 2016 vid 1:49 e m

    Hi , thanks for this information.One question

    After we successfully install the Let’s Encrypt and the Really Simple SSL plugins and we finish with the process of renaming the URL to https can we then remove those plugins from the WordPress dashboard?..

    Or do we have to keep them installed and running?

    Kind regards

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43. Keith Davis says

    feb 15, 2016 vid 12:41 e m

    Hi Guys
    This looks pretty good and with Google favouring SSL sites it is certainly something that I will be looking into.

    I’ll send my host a link to this article and see if they are using it via CPanel.

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44. Kate_H says

    feb 15, 2016 vid 12:40 e m

    Great timelyarticle Wpbeginner!

    I am just getting into the world off SSL certificates and this tutorial has given me a great starting place.

    Regards,

    Kate_H

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45. Bern Ruelas says

    feb 15, 2016 vid 11:58 f m

    Great job Syed! I’ve paid for certificates but was unable to give all my sites the https secure domain ability until now. Good timing as well because of the increased security threats everywhere on the net.

    Keep up the good work!

    Thanks,
    Bern

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    • Editorial Staff says

      feb 16, 2016 vid 6:26 f m

      Thanks Bern – yes this will help a lot of sites get SSL. The folks at Let’s Encrypt are really doing awesome stuff.

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