WordPress active HTTPS encryption on all WordPress.com sites
Millions of the WordPress.com platform web sites use encryption HTTPS soon. The internet becomes the much safer sudden.
WordPress has announced it is to add support for active HTTPS encryption by default on all sites designed on its platform. The protection was already available on all sites or blogs that are located under the domain wordpress.com (eg nomesito.wordpress.com), but will be expanded soon also on sites hosted by WordPress.com but that use a custom domain. It is millions of sites across the web, whose data will be much safer automatically with the HTTPS protocol.
WordPress is the most popular CMS on the web and widespread, and such a change perfected by such a big and has a huge scope. The news will be available right now for all new sites created on the service using a custom domain, while existing sites will be upgraded gradually over time. The subdomains WordPress.com support HTTPS from 2014, the implementation of the functionality on custom domains has taken much longer due to the greater complexity of operations.
WordPress has had the opportunity to do so thanks to the Let’s Encrypt project, through which implement HTTPS encryption, and manage certificates for each domain name in this case. It has become much easier and faster.
For each WordPress.com site that will support the HTTPS protocol will be shown on the traditional green lock browser, which indicates the cryptographic protection of incoming and outgoing data. All this will happen automatically, without any action required the operator of the site.
With the news announced during the weekends, there are not only advantages with regard to safety. Google has recently reported that the HTTPS sites are favorites in the placement on searches of the search engine, so the encrypted secure sites will be offered higher than the less secure sites potentially generating more traffic.
WordPress finally specifies that, thanks to the latest compression protocols (HTTP and SPDY/2), there will be no substantial variations as regards the performance of the sites.
