{"id":1470,"date":"2017-03-26T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2017-03-26T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:12:57","slug":"adding-the-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2017\/03\/adding-the-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding the \u2018s\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/\">Let\u2019s Encrypt<\/a> has made it much easi\u00ader for web sites to use <code>https<\/code> instead of <code>http<\/code>, even those on shared host\u00ading. In my case, all I needed to do was ask my <span class=\"caps\">ISP<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianwebhosting.com\/\">Cana\u00addian Web Host\u00ading<\/a>, to move my accounts to a serv\u00ader that sup\u00adports a cPan\u00adel exten\u00adsion (I assume <a blog.cpanel.com announcing-cpanel-whms-official-lets-encrypt-with-autossl-plugin>this one<\/a>). Installing the certs is trivial.<\/p>\n<p>Chan\u00adging the basic Word\u00adPress set\u00adting was easy \u2014 update the <code>WordPress Address (URL)<\/code> and <code>Site Address (URL)<\/code> set\u00adtings in Gen\u00ader\u00adal. This did break a lot of image links, mostly because I\u2019ve had my blog on Word\u00adPress for so long that I still had all my images in a cus\u00adtom image dir\u00adect\u00adory and the gal\u00adlery could\u00adn\u2019t find them any more. That took a cer\u00adtain amount of fid\u00addling, and I haven\u2019t yet got all the images in the old posts back to the way they&nbsp;were.<\/p>\n<p>Anoth\u00ader thing that broke was my spam detec\u00adtion. I used Spam Karma for many years, and even after it was no longer updated it was suit\u00adable for my needs. But it does\u00adn\u2019t work with <code>https<\/code> for some reas\u00adon. I\u2019ve now switched to <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/antispam-bee\/\">Anti\u00ads\u00adpam Bee<\/a> and find it does what I need. I haven\u2019t noticed any spam slip\u00adping through, nor real com\u00adments being marked as spam. Most of the com\u00adpet\u00adit\u00adors had some fea\u00adture I did\u00adn\u2019t like, such as by default delet\u00ading com\u00adments without my hav\u00ading a chance to check them. That would be use\u00adful on sites with lots of spam, but not neces\u00adsary for mine. It has a well-deserved high rat\u00ading on the Word\u00adPress plu\u00adgin&nbsp;site.<\/p>\n<p>Over\u00adall, switch\u00ading my sites to <code>https<\/code> cost me a couple of hours work and the time wait\u00ading for the new serv\u00ader <span class=\"caps\">DNS<\/span> to propag\u00adate. Well worth&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s Encrypt has made it much easi\u00ader for web sites to use https instead of http, even those on shared host\u00ading. In my case, all I needed to do was ask my <span class=\"caps\">ISP<\/span>, Cana\u00addian Web Host\u00ading, to move my accounts to a serv\u00ader that sup\u00adports a cPan\u00adel exten\u00adsion (I assume this one). Installing the certs \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2017\/03\/adding-the-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cAdding the \u2018s\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}