How to get FREE SSL Certificate for Your WordPress Website (HTTPS)

Hello Guys,Today I am Going To show you the new Tricks How to get FREE SSL Certificate for Your WordPress Website (HTTPS) 100% secure your site.

What Is SSL Certificate?

As we briefly mentioned above, SSL Certificate HTTP acts like a connecting bridge between your site and the user’s browser. By default, HTTP isn’t encrypted which poses a potential security threat to your site’s visitors. To fence this weak link, SSL is used as a checkpoint to guarantee the security of the data being exchanged over the web.
Every site is issued with a unique SSL certificate for identification purposes. There are three types of certificates that indicate the levels of trust by the user in the SSL negotiation:
  1. Domain Validated Certificate
  2. Organization Validation Certificate
  3. Extended Validation Certificate

Benefits of SSL certificates?

Switching over to HTTPS is a great way to increase your WordPress site’s security. In addition to this, it also allows potential customers and subscribers to interact with your site without having to worry about their personal data being intercepted. This would not only help in building trust but would also give your search engine ranking a boost.
Transactions. Security is one of the major concerns. Especially if you are running an e-commerce site because payments need to be accepted securely.
Web forms. Companies dealing with web forms which contain personal information of the users need to have a secure connection.
User login information.Keeping your user’s login information secure is vital. If you’re running a membership site then it’s important that your site’s visitors know that their login credentials are encrypted in the back end.
As we mentioned before, HTTPS is already being used as a ranking factor for search engines and it is expected in the future that it would have an even greater impact. To ensure that websites shift to HTTPS, Google has made it a bare minimum that every site that shows up in the search engine is using secure protocols. This would improve the quality of SEO and help in identifying unique content.


In order to setup or install SSL on our cPanel hosting, we need first, an SSL certificate which can be purchased from SSL provider.
Many hosting companies provide paid SSL certificate with a 1-year expiration date. But for cost reasons, you may use free SSL certificate. One of the SSL providers which offer free SSL certificate is SSLforfree.com. You will never pay for SSL anymore.
Their free SSL certificates are also trusted in 99.9% of all major browsers.
Steps on how to get a free SSL certificate can be described at the following explanation:
  1. Go to https://www.sslforfree.com
  2. Enter your website URL which wants to be installed with SSL certificate. Click “Create Free SSL Certificate” for next step, Your domain verification
SSLforfree.com provides 3  different methods in domain verification,
1.Automatic FTP Verification
2.Manual Verification
3.Manual Verification (DNS).
This step will prevent other people from getting an SSL certificate for your domain. In my case, I choose “Manual Verification” method in getting SSL certificate from SSLforfree.com.
3. Click “Manually Verification Domain” to download a free SSL certificate.
  1. Download the verification files by clicking 2 links appear on your PC screen
  2. (Download File #1 and Download File #2).
  3. Go to your cPanel of your domain account.
  4. Create a new folder in public_html directory : “.well-known” (if it doesn’t already exist). May the existing “well-known” folder is hidden, so you should see all the hidden files. Click “Settings” and check “Show Hidden Files  in the Preferences dialog box. Click “Save” and now you may see the directory named “.well-known”. Under this folder, the “acme-challenge” folder may also exist (create it if it doesn’t already exist).
Upload the two above downloaded files to the “acme-challenge” folder. 
Try to access the links appears in SSLforfree.com in your browser. You will see the random alphanumeric characters under your browser (if the files don’t show it, then ensure that you already uploaded the respective files in the correct place)
After successfully upload verification files, click “Download SSL Certificate” at the bottom of the SSLforfree page. This may take a minute for generating SSL certificate. A new message will display “Certificate Successfully Generated”.
  1. Click “Download All SSL Certificate Files”. Shortly, a zipped file will be stored on your PC. Also enter your email account to get notified before your SSL certificate expires after 90 days (you should regenerate SSL certificate before the expiry date, otherwise, your website might stop working).
  2. Now, login back to your cPanel account to install SSL certificate.
  3. Click “SSL/TLS” in the Security section.
Choose “Install and Manage SSL for your site (HTTPS)” and start to copy-paste the code obtained directly from SSLforfree page to the box in your cPanel : Private Keys (KEY), Certificate Signing Requests (CSR), and certificates (CRT).

Another way is uploading the .crt file. After pasting, click “Save Certificate”.
A new message will appear to inform us that the SSL certificate for the domain “www.PocketSpider.com” has been saved

Don’t Forget to Do changes in WordPress Settings:

First a Fall you have to Install a Plugin “Really simple SSL”and activate this plugin for activating Https://
After  successfully install the  ssl certificate. you need to change the url from “Wp-admin”
Choose the wordpress Settings choose General option the change the url both Webpage and WordPress url

Finally, your website now appears in “https” prefix when accessed by any browser.

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