WordPress & SSL: Turning Point in 2017 WordPress Development is at a turning point. In 2017, we will find out some new features in WordPress .i.e. Features which completely require hosts to have HTTPS available. Similar to Javascript is a near requirement for a user-friendly experience as well as present PHP versions are slow in performance, SSL has to show it’s game in the next obstacle. First of all, WordPress will not be raising their hosting partners unless they provide SSL certification by default for all their accounts. This feature is said to be placed in the beginning of 2017.
The firm will further make out which features will be creating benefits more with the use of SSL in WordPress, as well as making it available only when SSL is attached to the website. API authentication is considered as one of its features. It’s another example of a big web firm to walk towards a healthier as well as safer internet. With this change, it’s sure that the number of WordPress websites on HTTPS is going to increase rapidly. A huge amount of companies are walking on the steps of Google’s lead when it was declared back in 2014 that HTTPS is so compulsory that it demands to be a ranking factor, and let you know ranking factors are very small. If everything is equal, but one website is on HTTPS and the other one is not, the site on HTTPS will get the better ranking boost. Without being affected by the rank factor, it hasn’t stopped many SEOs and concerned websites owners from moving to HTTPS. HTTPS is becoming a trust factor for users because it cares about their privacy as well as data too.