{"id":699,"date":"2019-10-01T03:56:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostmate.com.au\/hosting\/?p=699"},"modified":"2023-09-12T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T17:52:11","slug":"how-to-add-ssl-to-a-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostmate.com.au\/hosting\/how-to-add-ssl-to-a-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add SSL to a WordPress website"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"699\" class=\"elementor elementor-699\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8a39877 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8a39877\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9159649\" data-id=\"9159649\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1353361 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1353361\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Once SSL has been installed on your domain you can auto install WordPress using Softaculous in cPanel using your SSL domain.<\/p>\n<p>You can still install WordPress before the SSL installed but you will need to update the WordPress settings later to use SSL once the SSL certificate has been installed as outlined in the instructions below.<\/p>\n<h2>Add SSL to an existing WordPress Installation<\/h2>\n<p>Go to your WordPress Admin Dashboard \u279c Settings&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u279c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;General&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">page and update the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to include &#8220;s&#8221; in the url eg. <b>https<\/b>:\/\/mydomain.com.au<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some links or images you have added into the page content may also need to be manually updated to include the &#8220;s&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hostmate.com.au\/hosting\/my-website-still-says-not-secure\/\">My website still says &#8220;Not Secure&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once SSL has been installed on your domain you can auto install WordPress using Softaculous in cPanel using your SSL domain. 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