Is a SSL certificate included with a premium subscription?

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  olo22 · Member · Sep 23, 2014 at 3:47 pm

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  Do you have a SSL certificate?

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

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  senff · Staff · Sep 23, 2014 at 3:52 pm

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  I believe the SSL certificate WordPress uses is for all WordPress.com sites, so for *.wordpress.com domains, regardless of premium or free.

  So, you won’t need your own certificate for your site.

  If I understand what you’re asking! :)

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  olo22 · Member · Sep 23, 2014 at 4:36 pm

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  Yes,
  I wanted to know if the information between my site and my users had an SSL certificate from WordPress.
  I wanted my users to know that it was there prior to sharing and sending their information to my site.

  Or do I need to purchase a SSL Cert. from WordPress.

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  senff · Staff · Sep 23, 2014 at 4:57 pm

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  I’m not an SSL expert, but I believe that if your visitors access your site through https://pinkbraindrain.wordpress.com/ (not just http://pinkbraindrain.wordpress.com/ ), then its done through secure connection.

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  olo22 · Member · Sep 23, 2014 at 5:14 pm

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  Thank You,
  I appreciate your input.

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 23, 2014 at 5:36 pm

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  The last time I checked browsers did not like a custom domain name with domain mapping and https – the SSL Certificate is issued to wordpress.com not custom-name.com (try https on the site linked to my name and you will see what happens)

  WordPress.COM is working on the issue but have not came up with a fix yet, Google is starting to downgrade sites that don’t support https a bit in their search results – there are some threads in the forum on this issue where the staff have weighed in

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  senff · Staff · Sep 23, 2014 at 6:17 pm

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  @auxclass is correct. However if you don’t have a custom domain name and you just keep your site as https://pinkbraindrain.wordpress.com, then there shouldn’t be an issue.

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  rusticimports2013 · Member · Oct 8, 2014 at 3:21 am

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  Hi, I will be needing a custom url to setup my online ecommerce site. What can I do in the mean time, if wordpress is having ssl issues with google?