Many internal links are https – how do I make them http?

  • Immediate question: Many of the links in my site, such as links to blog entries, are https links. I’m trying to get the site back to all http.

    Background: The site (willseyconnections.com) belongs to a relative I am trying to help. The mobile site for it is in dudamobile.com. A few months ago I migrated the main WordPress site to GoDaddy and, at the same time, added an SSL certificate. Immediately the mobile site broke.

    Dudamobile is brain dead but we’re stuck with it for now. I’ve been able to get it working better to the extent that I can remove http from the WordPress site, but WordPress is still generating https links. What could be controlling this?

    In the meantime we installed the Force HTTP plugin and it sort-of works.

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  • Thread Starter larryseltzer

    (@larryseltzer)

    The URLs in Settings->General are definitely HTTP and have been for some time.

    I already downloaded the database and changed all the relevant references from https to http.

    I dont suppose you have another htaccess in another folder. In some of my hosting I can place an htaccess in the public_html folder and another higher up in the rot which will overwrite it.

    It doesn’t matter if there is still an SSL assigned to a domain and the certs are on the server; if they are no https calls, the cert isn’t referenced.

    Im not entirely convinced by that, it may depend on your hosts setup.

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    @larryseltzer: Use the developer tools in Firefox (or Firebug) or Chrome or Safari or IE to determine which links are still https. There may be hardcoded links in the theme.

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