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Free SSL With Let’s Encrypt – How To Secure Your WordPress Website

By Ryan Gray on October 31, 2016 8

Free SSL With Let’s Encrypt – How To Secure Your WordPress Website
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With hackers constantly on the prowl it’s absolutely essential to use a secure SSL certificate on your website (i.e. https).

This not only protects your logins when accessing secure areas (such as your WordPress admin) it also helps protect your customer’s data and information when they’re completing transactions.

Since Google announced over two years ago that they would start giving priority to websites in their search results that use HTTPs, many webmasters have followed suit and set it up for their website.

Unfortunately, some just getting started find this a bit confusing.

In years past, you would have to first find a SSL provider, order a certificate, generate your secure key(s), obtain a dedicated IP address, install the certificate, etc.

I admit – it was a huge pain in the butt – so why mess with something that’s not broken!

At NameHero, we’ve decided to make this easy and free for all customers including those who Resell our web hosting.

Through a direct partnership with Let’s Encrypt, all websites on our servers are automatically provisioned, including subdomains!

Multiple times a day, all websites are scanned and checked to ensure they have an active and valid certificate installed.  If not, the system automatically generates and installs it.

Therefore, to secure your WordPress website, you just have to change the way your URLs are setup in the settings.

To demonstrate this, I’ve recorded the following video:

Please note, if you’re a brand new customer, you may need to wait a few hours or you can have us manually run the SSL module by submitting a new ticket!

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions!

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Ryan Gray

Ryan Gray is the founder and CEO of NameHero, one of the fastest growing independent web hosts in the United States. Ryan has been working online since 1998 and has over two-decades experience in Internet Entrepreneurship.

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  1. Scott Russell says

    March 17, 2018 at 2:23 am

    WHM showed my site with an SSL certificate, yet when i went to my site, it showed not secure…I wondered if it could be the WordPress settings but I didn’t think it that simple!
    Thanks, Ryan!

    Reply
    • Ryan Gray says

      March 19, 2018 at 2:20 pm

      Once the SSL certificate is installed, you still have to configure the website to use it. If you’re using WordPress there is a really good plugin to help you called Really Simple SSL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/

      Reply
  2. Pam says

    July 22, 2019 at 3:57 pm

    If I am moving a WordPress site that already uses Lets Encrypt to NameHero, do I need to remove LE before moving it over so I get a fresh LE install? Does it matter?

    Reply
    • Ryan Gray says

      July 22, 2019 at 4:38 pm

      Hey Pam, it’ll need to generate a new private key to match our server. You can bring it over and it should auto-revalidate anyways.

      Let us know if you have any issues!

      Reply

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