Blessed by the Potato

The Value of Simple site has been off-again on-again broken for over a month now. The culprit turned out to be WooCommerce, which in recent versions required more memory and to explicitly define the site’s base URL in the config file (which it hasn’t needed for the last 10 years… but whatever).

Now that’s finally up and running again, I figure hey, I have a few hours, taxes are in, I’ve already got FileZilla and my hosting management site up, maybe now it’s finally time to knock off something that’s been on the back burner for years: adding https to BbtP! (Plus the warnings from Chrome in particular were getting particularly obnoxious about it)

I don’t know how smoothly this is going to go: I have nearly 2000 posts with all kinds of embedded links and images that were hard-coded to non-secure links. Maybe the security warnings will only increase from here…

(I should also probably upgrade my theme to be responsive, but eh, it looks fine on my phone so that can probably wait another decade…)