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I Have An SSL Certificate For My Site..so What? Presented by Oluseun Taylor

I Have An SSL Certificate For My Site..so What? Presented by Oluseun Taylor

Overview:
Introduction to SSL certificates
SSL certificate acquisition
Installing WordPress with a certificate
Ensuring a WordPress Installation fully uses a
certificate

WordPress Nigeria Community

October 28, 2017
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  1. Introduction to SSL certificates SSL certificate acquisition Installing WordPress with

    a certificate Ensuring a WordPress Installation fully uses a certificate Overview
  2. Introduction to SSL certificates SSL certificate acquisition Installing WordPress with

    a certificate Ensuring a WordPress Installation fully uses a certificate Overview
  3. Introduction to SSL certificates SSL certificate acquisition Installing WordPress with

    a certificate Ensuring a WordPress Installation fully uses a certificate Overview
  4. Introduction to SSL certificates SSL certificate acquisition Installing WordPress with

    a certificate Ensuring a WordPress Installation fully uses a certificate Overview
  5. What does SSL mean? What are they used for? How

    do they work? Who are they for? Introduction to SSL certificates
  6. What does SSL mean? What are they used for? How

    do they work? Who are they for? Introduction to SSL certificates
  7. What does SSL mean? What are they used for? How

    do they work? Who are they for? Introduction to SSL certificates
  8. How do SSL certificates work? username: seuntaylor Password: iMyHonda_7854 Account

    balance: ₦ 56,845.25 Address: 67 Long Street, Ikeja. Messages: 85 Profile views: 907 Site components & resources
  9.  What does SSL mean?  What are they used

    for?  How do they work?  Who are they for? Introduction to SSL certificates
  10. A. have a basic blog and people just read. No

    comments allowed. B. have a website for a bakery. I don’t take orders, I just show recipes and baked goods. That’s it. C. Don’t care about Google ranking. I just want my site there. Period. D. Handle sensitive information and store them in my site’s database. I don’t need an SSL certificate if I…
  11. A. I should reinstall WordPress entirely and start a fresh

    site. B. My browser is dumb. The creators should release an update or I will uninstall their crappy product. (Switch browser). C. I should check dev tools on my browser to find out what resources are still being passed as insecure. D. Wait a couple of days for my DNS records to propagate. I just had an SSL certificate installed and after updating all my URLs to https:// I still don’t get a green padlock. What do I do?
  12. A. my ex who keeps stalking me and sending death

    threats to all my friends. B. LASTMA officials who have an imaginary bribe quota to meet. C. hackers who employ the brute force attack to gain access to my WordPress Dashboard. D. spammers and trolls on my WordPress blog. An SSL certificate can protect me from…
  13. A. Paid certificates protect better. You’re paying after all. B.

    The encryption algorithm differs from the paid versions. C. If the security of the certificate fails, I’m on my own. D. Free certificates have some limitations. My hosting company offers a free SSL certificate. What difference does it have from the paid ones?
  14. A. Extended Validation B. Wildcard C. Self-signed D. Doesn’t matter

    really I just installed a WordPress multisite (sub-domain) and I want to get an SSL certificate. Which do I get?