https address causing error screens

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    henkvansetten · Member ·

    Hi,
    Something is wrong with my “Recent Posts” widget. All the items in it link not to my proper site URL, but to my site’s address at wordpress.com — and with a https prefix instead of a normal URL.
    I got aware of this because of in-site clicks showing up in stats as outbound clicks.

    The big problem here is that everyone who clicks such a https “Recent Posts” link does not get not the wanted post, but a page with a safety warning because that https page does not exist!

    Example of one of my links in the “Recent Posts” sidebar widget:
    link should be: http://historyofmentalhealth.com/2014/03/27/virginia-woolf/
    but link goes to: https://historyofmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/virginia-woolf/

    I also use the “Recent Posts” sidebar widget in my other blog (http://stayontop.org) which is also hosted at wordpress.com — and the strange thing is in that blog it does produce the correct URLs.

    Does anyone have an idea what may be wrong here? A clue might be that I also get the same safety warning screens when, while editing a historyofmentalhealth post , I try to open the preview page. There the warning page is also generated because of an https URL linking to a non-https page.

    Can someone of the WordPress staff please take a look at this? For it seems to me that the WordPress system may be wrongly generating https links to non-https pages.

    Thanks for any help!

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    henkvansetten · Member ·

    UPDATE: I’ve saved a screenshot of the error page that appears (in the Chrome browser) when clicking one of my sidebar “Recent Posts” links.
    I’ve put the image in my public Dropbox folder so you can take a look: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8233092/SSL-error.jpg

    Many people wouldn’t dare to click the “Proceed Anyway” page for fear of some virus! So any help to solve this problem would be really be appreciated very much…

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    henkvansetten · Member ·

    The problem has been solved.

    The cause was that the main Dashboard page loaded as a https page, and all things set from there (such as widgets, edit pages, etc.) inherited this https setting.

    So, if anyone encounters the same problems, make sure your Dashboard loads as a normal http page and does not have an https address!

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    timethief · Member ·

    Thanks so much for telling us this issue has been resolved. best wishes for happy blogging!

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    gracejiyoung · Member ·

    Hi there,

    +1 to what @timethief said!

    Thank you and cheers!

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