Force Secure connection to your site

Google and several search engines now want secure connections to your sites blog, in order to force SSL connections, edit your .htaccess to look like the following

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
    RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The highlighted lines above are what is added to the standard wordpress .htaccess file to make all visitors to your site use https

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