Free SSL Certificate Plugin for WordPress
Single Site, 5-Sites, and Unlimited Sites License are available (annually and lifetime)
- You need only 1 minute to set it up.
- You don't need server administration or coding experience.
- cPanel or root access is required. Otherwise, we'll set up automation with Cloudflare CDN.
- It perfectly works with shared hosting.
- Force HTTPS with a single click.
What our users say
Excellent Plugin
Great plugin. There is no Russian translation, but this is not a significant problem.
Save me lots of time!
The right solution to take SSL in your site in minutes!
Best SSL Plug-in Ever!
The installation and documentation and even a help video are first class. My SSL certificate was installed and working within a half-hour (or less–I was busy so didn’t check for a half hour). Thank you! I’ve always wanted to use Let’s Encrypt but didn’t want the hassle. You have removed that roadblock.
Excellent Support
I am new to all of this, so this was a challenge, but actually went very smoothly. I found the video tutorial on installation extremely helpful. It is early days, but I have my new certificate safely in place. Thanks to all concerned.
Gets the job done
The auto-renewal feature eliminates the hassle of re-installing certificates every 3 months. Hugely appreciated.
Works seamlessly
If you are able to follow instructions, install this app. because this app works really well and give you instant free SSL without any hitch. even it shows pad lock in browser.
Great Job Developer.
Super Plugin
Veľmi jednoduchá inštalácia. [Very easy installation.]
Saved Me A Fortune!!!!
Saved me a fortune!!!!
Got SSL successfully!
Spent a few days researching and trying to get SSL without success, then in 1 hour finished and got SSL with the above WP plugin.
Helps me twice already
Helps me twice already. Thank you very much. It was explained well.
Works perfectly well done
Works perfectly well done!
Great
Simple and easy to use.
Perfect
Easy to setup and working perfectly.
Features of Premium Version
- Automatic Domain Ownership Verification
- Automatic Generation of Free SSL
- Automatic Installation of SSL Certificate
- Automatic SSL renewal
- Automatic Cron Job
- One-click activation of Force HTTPS
- One-click revert to HTTP (if required)
- One-to-one Premium Support
- We'll set up everything for non-cPanel websites.
- One installation works on all websites of a cPanel *
- Automatic Free WildCard SSL (covers all its sub-domains) *
- Automatically sets the DNS TXT record to verify domain ownership for generating WildCard SSL (supported DNS service providers are Cloudflare, Godaddy, Namecheap, and cPanel). *
- Multisite Support *
- Option to revoke the SSL cert and change the Let's Encrypt™ account key if needed. *
* Unlimited Sites license required.
Minimum System Requirements
- Linux or Windows hosting (windows is now supported)
- WordPress 4.1
- PHP 5.6
- OpenSSL extension
- Curl extension
- PHP directive allow_url_fopen = On
- cPanel: If your cPanel has the SSL installation feature enabled, the plugin installs SSL certificates automatically. Otherwise, we’ll set up automation with a Bash script (if you have root access) or Cloudflare CDN.
- The website should be assigned to a domain name (e.g., example.com) accessible online.
This plugin needs access to cPanel API to auto-install the free SSL certificates. It saves the cPanel password/API secret in your WordPress database with open SSL encryption.
But suppose your web hosting control panel is anything other than cPanel. We’ll set up automation with a Bash script or Cloudflare CDN in that case.
Documentation
Video tutorial
Multi-Domain mode for unlimited site license
Download and install the plugin
Most popular and easy method
- Login to admin dashboard of your WordPress website.
- From the admin menu click ‘Plugins > Add New’.
- Search with keyword: ‘Auto-Install Free SSL’.
- Once you found the plugin click ‘Install Now’ button.
- Click the ‘Activate Plugin’ button.
- Now see the “After activation” section below.
Manual upload
- Click here to download the plugin, or download it from the WordPress plugin directory.
- Extract the plugin archive. You get a directory appended with the plugin version, e.g., ‘auto-install-free-ssl.1.0.0’. Open it, and you get the ‘auto-install-free-ssl’ directory.
- Upload the ‘auto-install-free-ssl’ directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory of your WordPress website.
- Go to the ‘Plugins’ page in your WordPress backend and activate ‘Auto-Install Free SSL’.
- Now see the “After activation” section below.
Configuration
Provide your information
- In the ‘Installed Plugins’ page, you find the ‘Settings’ link just below the plugin name ‘Auto-Install Free SSL’. Click it.
- You get the admin dashboard of the plugin. You can also get this page from the admin menu at the bottom-left (below the default ‘settings’ menu) of your WordPress backend.
- At first, you get the ‘Basic Settings’ option only. Provide your information with it. You get other options. Fill in all the required options and set up the cron job with a single click.
- Congratulations! You have set it up.
Screenshots
1. Admin Menu
2. The dashboard
3. Basic Settings
4. cPanel Settings
5. Exclude Domains / Sub-domains
6. DNS Service Providers (index)
7. Add New DNS Service Provider
8. Add Cron Job
9. Email confirmation when the plugin issues and installs a free SSL certificate
If you need even more information, please click this link. All terms are same except the looks of the user interface.
What to do next?
Activate Force HTTPS : Get the Padlock with Single Click
Once the plugin installs a free SSL certificate for your website, login to your WordPress backend. Go to the dashboard of ‘Auto-Install Free SSL’ and click the ‘Activate Force HTTPS’ button. Doing this is necessary to get the padlock in the address bar of browsers when users access your website. You need to do this for the first time only.
If your cPanel doesn’t have an SSL installation feature turned on, please click ‘Activate Force HTTPS’ button only if you are sure that an SSL certificate has been installed on your WordPress website.
To remove the mixed content warning and see a padlock in the browser’s address bar, you need to click this button only once. This will activate force SSL and all your website resources will load over HTTPS.
Clicking this button will immediately force your website to load over HTTPS and may prompt you to login again.
WARNING: If the SSL certificate has not been installed properly, clicking that button may cause issues accessing the website. So, please access your website over https:// beforehand. If you see your website is loading with a mixed content warning and no padlock, but you see HTTPS in the address bar, that’s okay for now. Please go ahead and click the ‘Activate Force HTTPS’ button.
If you face issues after clicking that button, please Revert to HTTP. Please don’t worry, as soon as you click the button, the plugin will send you an automated email with a link. If you need to revert to HTTP, simply click that link. If you don’t find that email in your inbox, please don’t forget to check your spam folder.
Please find more options for Revert to HTTP below.
Deactivate Force HTTPS and Revert to HTTP
OPTION 1: As soon as you click the ‘Activate Force HTTPS’ button, the plugin will send you an automated email. If you need to revert to HTTP, click the link.
Please remember to check the SPAM folder if you haven’t received the email.
OPTION 2: But if you lost the email, please change the value of 3 options in the database. It’s straightforward. Do the following steps:
- Please login to your web hosting control panel or cPanel.
- Click on ‘phpMyAdmin’. You can use the search option of cPanel to find it easily. phpMyAdmin will open in a new window.
- In the left sidebar, you’ll see the databases. Click on the database on which your WordPress website is being run.
- You see the tables of that database. Click ‘wp_options’ table. If you didn’t change the WordPress database table prefix, it’s ‘wp_options’. Otherwise, it will start with the prefix you defined, instead of ‘wp_’.
- Find option_name ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ (saved at the beginning of the table). Make change option_value of these and replace https:// with http://
- Click the search option.
- Type ‘aifs_force_ssl’ (without quote) in the ‘option_name’ field and click ‘Go’ button.
- Now you see the search result. The ‘option_value’ is 1.
- Double click on 1. A field will open on it to edit the value. Delete 1 and write 0 (zero).
- Hit the Enter key. The ‘option_value’ is now successfully changed to 0.
You are done! You’ll now be able to access your website over HTTP.
Credits
- Let’s Encrypt™
- I have developed this plugin based on the PHP client/app FreeSSL.tech Auto, which I developed with a massive rewrite of Lescript.
- cPanel
Let’s Encrypt™ is a trademark of the Internet Security Research Group. All rights reserved.
One Response
Hi,
I have been using your product on our WordPress site for a few months now. I have upgraded to the Premium app that runs us through the end of the year. I read in the old app that after it expires in December, we can get the Premium version for a 30% discount. I wanted to see if that is is something we can do now, instead of waiting until December? We would like to get the lifetime license so I wanted to see if the 30% off also counted towards that version. Please let me know.