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Flex SSL is a lightweight WordPress plugin designed to secure your website by enforcing HTTPS across your entire site. Key features include:
- Force HTTPS: Automatically redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Encoded and non-ASCII permalinks are preserved. Alias hosts fall back to the WordPress home URL.
- Auto-Update URLs: Change WordPress site and home URLs from HTTP to HTTPS, with a stored backup you can revert.
- Cloudflare/Proxy Support: Detects HTTPS headers from Cloudflare, Azure, CloudFront, and other reverse proxies to avoid redirect loops.
- Security Headers: Optionally add HSTS (includeSubDomains is optional), X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and Referrer-Policy.
- Mixed Content Fixer: Rewrites this site’s HTTP URLs to HTTPS in content, excerpts, attachments, srcset, scripts, and styles. External links are left unchanged. Tools can scan the front page for leftovers.
- SSL Status: View certificate expiry, issuer, subject names, trust, and hostname match. Optional admin notices and email before expiry.
- Redirect Options: Choose between 301 (permanent) and 302 (temporary) for GET. Non-GET requests use 307.
- Logs, Tools, and Site Health: Monitor changes, test HTTPS, and see Flex SSL tests in Tools Site Health.
- Recovery:
FLEX_SSL_DISABLEin wp-config.php, Tools Revert URLs, andwp flex-ssl disable/wp flex-ssl revert-urls.
On Multisite, settings and URL updates are per site.
License
Flex SSL is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
For more details, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
Screenshots

Settings – SSL status, Force HTTPS, mixed content, and security options.

Logs – View and clear recent SSL events.

Usage – Short guide to HTTPS, headers, and proxies.



Plugin Details
Active Installs
50Total Downloads
1,441Version
1.2.1Requires WP
5.1Requires PHP
7.0Tested Up To
7.1Added
2025-04-22Last Updated
2026-09-16 9:31pm GMTRatings
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