{"id":679,"date":"2020-06-04T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=679"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:46:16","slug":"how-to-force-wordpress-with-ssl-connection","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-force-wordpress-with-ssl-connection","title":{"rendered":"How to force WordPress with SSL connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mkb-anchor mkb-clearfix mkb-back-to-top-inline\">\n<h5 class=\"mkb-anchor__title\">How to force WordPress with SSL connection?<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below will be the steps to guide user to force WordPress with https:\/\/ connection.<\/p>\n<p>1. Login into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">WordPress<\/a> admin dashboard. eg:\u00a0www.YOURDOMAIN.com\/wp-admin<\/p>\n<p>2. Select Settngs-&gt; General<\/p>\n<p>3. Under WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) update user domain to https:\/\/www.YOURDOMAIN.com.\u00a0\u00a0The page will be as below:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14054247788\/original\/mSlzfLCunAZn_gVofpO1DoWBhbYvdJp8WQ.png?1569378556\" alt=\"How to force WordPress with SSL connection?\" width=\"940\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Save.<\/p>\n<p>Now last step to complete the process. Open hosting .htaccess file and update the below code:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2026-01-08-094437-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2026-01-08-094437-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2026-01-08-094437-370x173.png 370w, https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2026-01-08-094437-390x183.png 390w, https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2026-01-08-094437.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to force WordPress with SSL connection? Below will be the steps to guide user to force WordPress with https:\/\/ connection. 1. Login into WordPress admin dashboard. eg:\u00a0www.YOURDOMAIN.com\/wp-admin 2. Select Settngs-&gt; General 3. Under WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) update user domain to https:\/\/www.YOURDOMAIN.com.\u00a0\u00a0The page will be as below: 4. Save. Now last step to complete the process.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[28],"kbtag":[1131,1134],"class_list":["post-679","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-wordpress","kbtag-ssl","kbtag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/679\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}