Is there a problem with my certificate, or has my site been hacked?

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  lspencer777 · Member · Apr 7, 2014 at 1:59 am

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  When I click on my links, I get an error message, “There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.” in Internet Explorer and “This is probably not the site you are looking for!” in Chrome

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

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  lspencer777 · Member · Apr 7, 2014 at 2:02 am

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  Referring to the question above, the “links” I meant are the ones shown under “Recent Posts”. They all have https URLs, in contrast to the links embedded in my posts, which have http URLs (not sure if that’s relevant).

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Apr 7, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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  Hi there,

  That is actually very standard behavior and is a bit misguided (sorry about the scare!). Please note that only you and other registered users of the blog will see it when logged in.

  When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.

  When you connect to your Dashboard via your own domain but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.

  To prevent your readers running into this in their browsers, just make sure that whenever you provide a link to your blog or post it anywhere, that you post it as http:// and not https://.

  You can read more about this here.