Why privacy warning on my latest post?
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When I do a Google search for my latest post title and click on it, I get a privacy warning:
“Your connection is not private. Attackers might be trying to steal your information from piedtype.com … This server could not prove that it is piedtype.com; its security certificate is from *.wordpress.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.”
What’s going on? How do I fix this?
The Google search also shows the post was crawled 8 hours ago and I only posted it about 30 minutes ago. What’s that about?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The issue is that WordPress.com currently does not support SSL certificates for custom domain names. (Yet, another reason I am on a blogging break.)
See here please https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ssl-certificate-8?replies=10#post-2436815
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So I can disable the alert so I won’t see it, but what about all my readers? Won’t they still see it? Won’t that kill or discourage readership? I paid for the custom domain name but WP won’t support SSL on it!? Terrific.
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but what about all my readers? Won’t they still see it?
Yes, unless they act to disable it.
Won’t that kill or discourage readership?
Yes.
I paid for the custom domain name but WP won’t support SSL on it!? Terrific.
Me too and for two blogs but this factor was not included in the support docs at the time and still not included here in Important Notes Before Upgrading
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For the same reason I’m not, is my guess. I had to stop publishing lest my blogging tips blog turn into a rant blog. Now I sing instead of blogging.
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I’ve got more pressing matters to worry about these days. No energy to spare for WP’s inexplicability.
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I’m 100% sure that Staff are planning to provide SSL for mapped domains and sub-domains as soon as they can do so.
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Oh, I do believe we will see it happen one day. That said, after 9 years in the fangirl chorus on the WordPress.com rollercoaster ride featuring many announced and frequently unwelcome changes, I have discovered that singing is more likely to result in happiness than blogging, which can result in screaming, does.
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When I do a Google search for my latest post title and click on it, I get a privacy warning:
Google crawls links. It must have crawled an incorrect link for your latest post because when I search for other posts, it works without the https (as it’s supposed to). Example search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Extradite+Walter+Palmer%22+piedtype
It looks to me like Google picked up an HTTPS link for your latest post when it should not have. The only reason I can think of that it would have done that is that somewhere there is a broken link to that post using https:// instead of http:// (the working link). Clicking on the latest post from inside the blog at http://piedtype.com/ is working normally, so the broken link is not coming from there.
but what about all my readers? Won’t they still see it?
It shouldn’t for links that are picked up properly. There could be more going on here than I know about, but from what I can see so far, Google should be crawling your site normally and I don’t know why it has the wrong link for your latest post.
Won’t that kill or discourage readership?
Since the problem is only happening for the latest post, it shouldn’t. To make sure it’s not a bug or that it’s because of something that is happening behind the scenes, can you check your next post to see if the same thing happens again? Or if other people are experiencing this, can you please make a note here and include a link to the post? This way, we can rule out this being a temporary glitch of some kind.
I paid for the custom domain name but WP won’t support SSL on it!? Terrific.
I think many hosts charge extra for SSL. It’s not something WordPress.com offers just yet, but it’s something we’d like to in the future. Sorry we don’t have it yet!
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Could Google have crawled it while I was previewing it? That might explain why Google claimed to have crawled it more than 7 hours before I posted it. Whatever the explanation, it’s working correctly now. Go figure.
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