Migrating a WordPress Website from HTTP to HTTPS: A Complete Guide

Migrating a WordPress Website from HTTP to HTTPS: A Complete Guide

Vahagn Petrosyan 21 Feb, 2018

For the longest time, the Search Engine Journal WordPress website ran on an HTTP connection. We decided to migrate to HTTPS after Google confirmed that websites would not lose rankings when moving from HTTP to HTTPS.

Just recently, Google set July 2018 as the deadline for HTTPS implementation. The company warned publishers that, for any HTTP domains, Chrome will display a “not secure” label in the address bar.

This means migrating to HTTPS is important now more than ever.

In this post, I will share the experience I had from migrating the SEJ website to HTTPS and many other WordPress-based websites I’ve worked on.

I’ll be assuming you have basic WordPress coding skills and have already installed an SSL certificate on your website, since most hosting providers offer that feature with one click.

WordPress Website Structure: An Overview
Before starting, here’s a basic overview of how WordPress websites are structured.

Every WordPress website has the following file structure:

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