The steps are given below:
Step 1: Visit www.cloudflare.com and create an account.
Step 2: Login to your account and then on the top right corner, click on +Add site link.
Step 3: Here, add your website domain name.
Step 4: Next, choose the free plan and click on Confirm plan.
Step 5: Scroll down the page and click on Continue.
Step 6: Now it will ask to change your nameservers. A nameserver is basically a server owned by web host company to specifically manage domain names associated with their web hosting customers. Nameservers allow using domains instead of IP addresses.
Step 7: To change the nameserver, you first have to log in to your web hosting account. In your account, you have to search for domains sections and find your registered domain and click on DNS.
Step 8: If you are on Godaddy, you’ll find a section called Nameservers. Just click on the change button, choose the custom option from the dropdown menu and replace existing nameservers with the nameservers provided by Cloudflare and hit save. For other web hostings, the procedure will be the same.
Step 9: Now go back to Cloudflare and click on Done, check nameservers.
Step 10: It will show you a page asking to complete the nameserver setup. Just click on Re-check now and you will get a message saying that yourdomainname.com is now queued up to be re-checked. After that, refresh the page and you’ll get the success message saying Cloudflare is now protecting your site.
Step 11: Now go to WordPress dashboard and search for Cloudflare Flexible SSL plugin. Install and activate it.
Step 12: Next, go back to Cloudflare dashboard, on top of the page, go to Crypto section and find the section named Always use HTTPS. It will be off by default. Toggle the button and turn it on.
Step 13: That’s it. Now you have successfully installed an SSL certificate on your WordPress website. Visit your website to see the https protocol along with the padlock. It may take up to 24 hours to properly activate your SSL certificate. So be patient and enjoy your more secured website!!!
P.S. A lot of people are having problems such as broken site, part of this website is not working, page not working etc. even after following these steps. I was also dealing with the same broken site issue. To fix this issue, I installed a WordPress plugin called SSL Insecure Content Fixer. Just install and activate it and then visit your site.
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