SSL on WordPress? – How I activate HTTPS on WordPress Sites. No plugin required

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SSL is becoming more important with secure sites becoming the standard and costs of SSL certificates becoming less. There are different ways to setup SSL on a WordPress site and after doing a few different ways and working with hosting support, here’s the method I’ve landed on. I like it because it doesn’t require a plugin to be left active.

Code for htaccess:
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [R,L]

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