Hi loves, and happy Friday! I hope you’re all well. Today, I’m sharing a quick tip for my fellow bloggers who have websites. Over the weekend, I logged into my WordPress account and navigated to my dashboard. When I clicked to go to my website, there was a “Not Secure” icon to the left of my website URL, which I had never seen before:
this is the icon I saw when I first logged into my WordPress account on 8/19/18.
I was surprised because I thought I had done all of the necessary updates that have happened this past year, but I was wrong! After spending 10 minutes YouTubing and looking at WordPress.org help forums, I was frazzled and still didn’t know what I needed to do to fix my website security.
I decided to reach out to my domain name and website host, Bluehost, via livechat to see if someone from there could help me out. Within a minute, someone was live chatting me, asking what my issue was. When I told the person that my website was saying “Not Secure”, they confirmed the website domain name that I was talking about and then told me to download and activate the Really Simple SSL plugin (a free plugin!):
Within a minute, I had downloaded and installed this plugin. Next, the customer service agent asked me to navigate to my website again, and voila! It now said “Secure”. Problem solved.
After I downloaded + activated the Really Simple SSL plugin, this is what the icon section looks like now.
This is the second time that I’ve reached out to Bluehost customer service – the first time was when I accidentally deleted most of my photos from my website’s library (read about that snafu here). Both times, I have been more than taken care of and couldn’t be more thankful for Bluehost and it’s wonderful customer service.
If you’re in the market for a domain and website host provider, check out Bluehost (this is an affiliate link) – I can’t recommend this company enough!
Cheers,
Marah Elizabeth
