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WordPress.com Enables HTTPS Encryption For All Websites

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-https dept.

On Friday, WordPress announced that it is bringing free HTTPS to all -- "million-plus" -- custom domains, essentially ramping up security on every blog and website. The publishing platform says it partnered with Let's Encrypt project to implement HTTPS across such a voluminous number of sites. From the blog: For you, the users, that means you'll see secure encryption automatically deployed on every new site within minutes. We are closing the door to un-encrypted web traffic (HTTP) at every opportunity.

3 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Incoming Security Errors by lesincompetent · · Score: 3, Informative

    Awesome, it also forces you to correct your mistakes.

  2. Re:Incoming Security Errors by chihowa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Awesome, it also forces you to correct your mistakes.

    From his post:

    Had to go back and change all the images I had loaded in my previous posts to use my new https URLs.

    Apparently not.

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    If you want a vision of the future, imagine a youtube comments section scrolling - forever.
  3. Re:Incoming Security Errors by omnichad · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can do a full URL without specifying protocol. Instead of http:/// or https:/// you can just use //