{"id":4725,"date":"2016-04-14T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2016-04-14T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:14:55","slug":"wordpress-https","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2016\/04\/14\/wordpress-https\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress.com goes full HTTPS for hosted sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4729 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/dfwn148cvdexl.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Green-padlock-in-circle-150x150.png\" alt=\"HTTPS Green-padlock-in-circle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Green-padlock-in-circle-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Green-padlock-in-circle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Green-padlock-in-circle-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Green-padlock-in-circle-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Green-padlock-in-circle.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>There&#8217;s no arguing that WordPress has grown to wield much influence on the web, but one area they&#8217;ve lacked compared to services and platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter was their lack of offering HTTPS to sites hosted at WordPress.com that use a custom domain name.<\/p>\n<p>Those days are now over.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve partnered with Let&#8217;s Encrypt, a new service offering free SSL certificates, to offer SSL to sites without the site owner having to know how to install SSL.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s huge because creating, generating, and installing SSL certificates can be a difficult task, even for those of us with a strong technical background. Thanks to the API nature of Let&#8217;s Encrypt, the entire SSL generation and renewal process can be automated, reducing the technical hurdles to implementation and improving adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important? A few reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, there&#8217;s never been more attention put on security, encryption, and the safety of information. By making it brain-dead simple for their users, WordPress is helping to improve the security of the web.<\/p>\n<p>Second Google loves themselves HTTPS and SSL. Not just in general, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2016\/02\/19\/gmail-encryption\/\">as we&#8217;ve seen lately in their Gmail messages<\/a>, but they are starting to rank sites that use HTTPS higher. Still think that HTTPS and TLS is too taxing on your servers? <a href=\"https:\/\/istlsfastyet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Not so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Third, by having their sites being sent\u00a0over\u00a0HTTPS, WordPress.com can serve those sites using\u00a0HTTP\/2, which means faster, more efficient content delivery. \u00a0This is important as our sites get larger and larger, with more CSS, javascripts, responsive high-DPI images, and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/http2.github.io\/faq\/#is-it-http20-or-http2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The HTTP\/2 repo at Github says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a high level, HTTP\/2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is binary, instead of textual<\/li>\n<li>is fully multiplexed, instead of ordered and blocking<\/li>\n<li>can therefore use one connection for parallelism<\/li>\n<li>uses header compression to reduce overhead<\/li>\n<li>allows servers to \u201cpush\u201d responses proactively into client caches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to WordPress.com and Automattic for this move. A safer, more secure web is a better web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.com has partnered with Let&#8217;s Encrypt, a new service offering free SSL certificates, to painlessly offer SSL to sites without the site owner having to know how to install SSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,64,65,79],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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