UsersWP recaptcha makes me unable to access my admin

I have no idea what those Google warnings mean. 🙁

Ok here’s something else…that recaptcha plugin is showing wonky to me. It’s in my plugin list, but if I click on “view details”, I get a button that says “install now”.

When I go to UsersWP extensions area, the recaptcha extension shows greyed out as active…but if I click on the “more info” link…I get a “plugin not found” message popup.

See attached images.

Well, I’m striking out with the other captcha. Error messages all around. I’m going to go to my host and see about fixing the SSL on this page first. Maybe that will fix that part at least.

Ok, so here’s something I figured out this morning…

If I type fresnofamily.com/login in my Chrome browser, it brings up this:
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Notice that it says “not secure”?? And therein may possibly lie my whole problem… I THINK…

Because when I actually type https://fresnofamily.com/login, or just the secure homepage and click the login link from there…it brings me to a secure connection. And SO FAR this morning…logging in via that secure connection gets me into my site, access to my admin bar, no problem. SO FAR.

Things have looked hunky-dory before and then later on in the day gone wonky again…so I will continue to test this throughout the day. But I redid my bookmark for this site, which did indeed leave off the http part and just had fresnofamily.com/login …leaving my browser to figure out the rest, I guess…and so for some unknown reason, it’s not forwarding?

It’s strange to me that it’s Google Chrome browser that is causing this problem and their the ones that put that SSL requirement in place…yet no problem on Firefox…so clearly, Firefox is able to figure out that I DO have SSL and sort it out properly and log me in properly, but Chrome cannot seem to? (Assuming that is indeed the issue…)

All I can figure is that there’s something in either my site or maybe that Recaptcha plugin that is messing with the SSL when I don’t type out the http part…but I really shouldn’t have to type that all out! I don’t have to on any of my other sites and never have a problem. They all show as secure, so clearly Chrome is able to figure it out on them!

Well, here’s hoping that this is a simple solution to a huge month-long headache! We shall see how the day goes.

SSL is fine. But there’s something definitely wonky on that ONE page. And I don’t know what the cause is. The entire site is showing fine for SSL. Just that ONE page: fresnofamily.com/login.

I tested it out on all the browsers I have access to that I know of…
EVERY ONE OF THEM: Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari (on my ipad) ALL show “not secure” if I type the address without the https…just type it as fresnofamily.com/login it shows “not secure”. Try it!

BUT Firefox…can figure it out and shows it secure. The ONLY browser that can figure it out.

But the question is WHAT is it about that one page? The only thing that I can sort out is that it’s this plugin. It doesn’t appear to be hosting…he’s not seeing anything anywhere that’s wrong. (I’m with Spectrum, by the way and he’s been going above and beyond trying to help even though this issue is most likely not on his end.) And indeed any SSL test is coming up fine. In fact going to this site: https://www.whynopadlock.com/ and doing a scan of that specific URL (without the https, of course) shows that it IS secure…so WHY if I type it…as I am keen to do if I don’t have a bookmark…does it turn up not secure on EVERY browser except Firefox??

It is a puzzle.

But once I stopped using a bookmark using that URL…and typed that https in front of it, it ended my problem of not being able to access the admin bar. So I am no longer having the original issue…but this “not secure” issue remains on this one URL.