WooCommerce Status Report: “Your store is not using HTTPS”

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  • Plugin Author webaware

    (@webaware)

    G’day @halfacre,

    That’s because your website isn’t set to run only from HTTPS:

    https://www.acceleratingyoungminds.com/shop/

    Verify that your site works on HTTPS on all pages, then change your WordPress URL and Site URL to both use HTTPS:

    Settings > General

    cheers,
    Ross

    Thread Starter halfacre

    (@halfacre)

    Thanks for the reply, webaware. Is it necessary to set to run only as https even if it’s only needed on checkout pages? Will changing these settings affect the ability of users to reach the site via http (say, via a bookmark or from external links)? Thank you again!

    Plugin Author webaware

    (@webaware)

    No, it’s not necessary; you can run on http for pages with no password fields and no checkout. You just won’t get that green tick on the WooCommerce status report if you don’t have the shop page on https.

    There are other advantages to having your site on https, however. If your web server supports http/2 (or you use a transparent like Cloudflare that does), your website will load faster for most visitors. You will also get slightly better SEO scoring from Google.

    You’ll need to research the SEO effects of changing from http to https. I believe that there are some things to be aware of.

    cheers,
    Ross

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