Insecure items not fixed – what can I do?

I’d be grateful for a response. This is kind of urgent because my home page looks all distorted. I’d be grateful for anything you can tell me that would help with this issue.

G’day Angietops7,

Two problems, one small and easy to fix, one big.

The small one: your theme is loading the font Open Sans from Google Webfonts with a hard-coded reference using http. Edit this file in your theme and remove the “http:” bit from the line about Open+Sans:

/wp-content/themes/re2qa/css/style.css

The big one: your website is loading three (3!) copies of jQuery, all different versions. This is bad! It looks like it’s something called FWSlider, and not only is that thing loading two additional (and old) versions of jQuery, it’s loading them via http instead of https, in the middle of the page (i.e. after other scripts have started using the “good” jQuery), and without any regard to how scripts are meant to be loaded in WordPress.

Disable that FWSlider thing, and if that fixes your problems, throw it away and complain to its authors.

cheers,
Ross

Hi Webaware – thanks for checking this out for me. I really appreciate your taking the time to look and explain!

Can you tell me how to find that code to remove the http bit from?

Also, I’m trying to find a similar slider plugin to replace the FWSlider with, but I can’t find anything similar so far. Do you have any ideas for a good replacement plugin?

You’ll need to FTP it from your server to a local folder. That path (wp-content/…) is where you’ll find it from the root of the website. Download it, edit it (it’s somewhere in the first few lines of the file), and upload it. Then tell the theme authors.

Slider plugins — sorry, not an expert. I try to steer clear of such things. If I have to incorporate a slider into a site that doesn’t have such a thing, I often drop in some jQuery library that suits. Lots of people rave about the Revolution Slider (revslider), perhaps that might suit your needs.

cheers,
Ross