WordPress pushes Free HTTPS Encryption for all its blogs

  • 11 April 2016
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April 11, 2016  By Pierluigi Paganini
 
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WordPress announces “HTTPS Everywhere, Encryption for All WordPress.com Sites,” millions websites will be secured without users’ effort.

 
WordPress is pushing free default SSL for all the website running the popular CMS and hosted on WordPress.com, that means over 26% of websites based on the most popular CMSs on the web will be secured (Statistics by W3techs).
 
On Friday, WordPress announced that it has partnered with the Let’s Encrypt project in order to offer free HTTPS support for all of its users on WordPress.com blogs.
 
According to the systems engineer Barry Abrahamson from WordPress’ parent company Automattic, the roll out will be transparent without impact on the users.
 
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WordPress is making a effort and hats off to them for this is a important issue on security
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A good move...just wondering what has prompted this now rather than earlier?

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