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The unsecured content is coming from one of your WP Plugins, FAQ-You which is pulling content from VimeoCDN around line 62 of your source code:

<script src="https://lifering.org/sitetest/wp-content/plugins/faq-you/js/faq-frontend.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="https://a.vimeocdn.com/js/froogaloop2.min.js?25f83-1376905454"></script>

It doesn’t look like this plugin is actively supported anymore so I guess you need to decide whether to source an alternative.

HTH

Are you logged out of WP Admin. when you check HTTPS status in Firefox ? You shouldn’t get different results between FF and Chrome. Can you share a sample page ?

According to their own FAQ, 123Flashchat does support HTTPS as of version 6.9.2 so it would be worthwhile doing some investigation as to what causes the crash – cross domain issues, perhaps ?

With regards to the 301 redirects I am no authority on Apache directives but suggest you probably need a two step approach, first to point pages to HTTPS (bar the offending chatroom page) and secondly to force said page to HTTP. The directives you need are along the lines of:

RewriteEngine on
# If we're not already in HTTPS mode
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
# Exclude the page to be served via HTTP from the redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mypage.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Now force this page to HTTP
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !off
# If page URI contains this query string
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mypage.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301, L]

It would be worthwhile checking out the HTTPS Wiki for examples. There may be a more efficient way to handle the redirects, for example omitting the conditional statement on the site-wide redirect to https://

On VelvetBlue, I ran the plugin on the current version of WordPress (it may have been 3.9.1 at the time) without any issues. VelvetBlue performs a simple search and text replace on the DB so there are unlikley to be any issues, unless the database structure changes (unlikely) so I wouldn’t be too concerned that the compatibility status is showing as WP 3.8.3 in this instance.

Hedera,

I have converted a couple of sites from HTTP to HTTPS, my own and kisshairextensions.co.uk Having used the WordPress HTTPS plugin on the latter site, I did not find it any help although this may be because it was conflicting with Woocommerce (which was forcing HTTP mode). If you update your .htaccess file to include a 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS this will have the same effect as using the WordPress HTTPS plugin (AFAIK).

I would recommend the VelvetBlue plug-in to update your internal URLs. It handles the database changes for you, without the need to construct your own SQL statements.

As you point out, you will need to go through the CSS and, possibly, Javascript files as well. I’m not aware of any wordpress plugins that will do this but if you download your site locally you will be able to search for any hard-coded URLs requiring update to HTTPS. The simplest way to check the state of your HTTPS status is to view the live site in Chrome. Any mixed content (ie HTTP + HTTPS) will be indicated by a Triangle in the address bar, ratehr than padlock symbol. Press F12 to brings up the Developer Tools window and check the Console tab. Any insecure content loaded over HTTP will be itemised in the console window and you can then pinpoint the source and ascertain whether its possible to load it over HTTPS (it may not be possible to load external, third-party content over HTTPS, depending on their mode of serving content: HTTP or HTTPS).

Vvanja4, have you tried adding products via Admin? The fact that you are do not have a Catalog or Pages tab may not be an issue. These tabs may be Theme specific. If you review the WooCommerce Screenshots you will see that these Tabs are not shown.

Proucts are uploaded via the Products menu on the left menu bar, rather than the WooCommerce menu. Here’s a screenshot from a Woocommerce Admin page. As you can see the Products menu is where you upload product information.

HTH