Regiatration security

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us about browser warnings, in 2017 Chrome and Firefox began rolling out secure / not secure notifications to their users in the address bar, Chrome extended this recently to form fields too.

The notice is issued when the website does not have an SSL certificate or has an invalid SSL certificate. If the website does not have an SSL certificate and requests login or personal information a secondary warning is issued in the form input field.

You can read more about this here https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/avoid-not-secure-warn.

The solution is to get an SSL certificate for your website, most hosts offer these for free and they can often be found in your hosting control panel under the name Let’s Encrypt or OpenSSL. Once you have one installed for your domain you will need to update your web address in WordPress, you can do this by going to Settings > General > Set value for: ‘WordPress Address (URL)’ and ‘Site Address (URL)’. You should change http:// to https://

Once this has been updated you should check your website, if you still get redirected on some content to http you will need to do a search and replace in your database for http://yourdomain.com and replace with https://yourdomain.com – if you’re not comfortable doing this you should contact your host. Always make a backup before making changes like this.

You may encounter errors when you switch to SSL, if you do you should try a plugin called Really Simple SSL https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/.

Thanks,

Kieran