Site labelled as unsafe

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  aguiarkna · Member · Oct 18, 2022 at 7:49 pm

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  Hi, my website is mainly used as a portfolio for job applications, and a recruiter I interviewed with said when she tried to reach the site she had a pop-up saying it was unsafe. I gather that is has something to do with the SSL certificate so I went to upload a plugin for it but I do not need a business account just for this. When I looked into it further I saw on wordpress’s FAQ that all wordpress sites should automatically have this installed, so I am not sure how to go about fixing this – this site is my only way of showing potential employers my work expereince so it is important there are no bad impressions surrounding the accessibilty of my wordpress site – Please help!

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 19, 2022 at 2:17 am

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  Hi! You should indeed have SSL built into the site you listed.

  Do you know which page gave your recruiter an error? Do you get the error, too?

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  aguiarkna · Member · Oct 22, 2022 at 12:24 am

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  Hi sorry for the delay, the error message does not show up for me (maybe some particular security settings for thier company computers?) The page it is happening on is the main homepage, it seemed to also happen after clicking a hyperlink with this url in it that is located on my digital resume.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Oct 22, 2022 at 1:29 pm

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  Just to make sure we’re on the same page, you’re having this problem on the site nainsight.wordpress.com?

  If so, please provide the full URLs you’re seeing this error message so we can take a closer look.

  If that’s not the correct URL, please provide the URL of the site where you’re having this problem and we can better advise.

  Thanks!

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  aguiarkna · Member · Oct 22, 2022 at 7:07 pm

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  Yes;

  Portfolio

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Oct 22, 2022 at 9:03 pm

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  Thank you for confirming. I’m not able to reproduce this issue on multiple browsers and multiple devices; when entering the URL using http it is automatically redirected to the https (secure) version of the URL.

  It sounds like the recruiter’s company network is blocking URLs or not properly routing http URLs to https as they should on a normal browser.

  I would recommend giving the recruiter the full URL using https and it should load properly for them.

  Alternatively, you could remove the password requirement from your portfolio as most job seekers’ portfolio sites are public.