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I believe we all have a very clear understanding of what your issue now is - you have stated it many times. But when you started the thread the issue was two-fold in that you were not seeing an ssl permalink for the forum page which had to be resolved first before even starting to look at the edit issue.

So I am now going to have to assume that all permalinks and SSL is working within the forum page as you want it making that issue dealt with. Well sort of dealt with.

@mr-papa (while being incorrect about the edit function adding a query arg to the url) was quite correct when he stated that simply adopting SSL is not going to stop the editing of posts. As you clearly were able to edit posts before you made this change then the obvious first question has to be - did you make any other changes because something is clearly in play that is causing the issue? 

And if you say there were no other changes then perhaps this plugin you adopted for SSL needs investigating. I am curious as to why use a plugin when WP supports SSL without the need of one.

patrick182 said
When I discovered this issue, I immediately deactivated all plugins less Simple:Press, then tried to edit a post and it made no difference. I can't say it's a plugin issue.

But that wasn't my question. I asked if there were any other changes to your website at the same time as you adopted SSL. That could just as easily be a new WP theme or an update to your theme. And surely, if you deactivated ALL plugins you would need to reverse all the settings for SSL and would have thus put the whole website back to the way it was before - when editing worked. So how did you do this please?

These are important questions to help diagnosis and really need a detailed answer if only to discount things.

Aside from adding an SSL Certificate, making edits to my .htaccess file to force https on all page, and finally changing both site and WordPress URLs from http to https in Settings>General, nothing else has changed.

But you said at the top of this thread that you - 'installed a WordPress plugin called WordPress HTTPS'. Are you now saying that this is not being used?

Any chance I can provide login credentials to one of the admins here for a quick investigation? I'm at a loss.

Yes - you can PM credentials to both myself, to 'Mr Papa' and to 'Ike'. Please include in the PM a link to your site, a link to this thread and brief reminder of the problem. And one of us will take a look for you. The user needs to be a Simple:Press admin course.

I very much doubt there is anything to find however. Editing a post is simply a matter of sending a standard POST action to the server that then reloads the page in editing mode. There is nothing mysterious or non-standard about it. If it no longer works then - as I already stated - something third party is at play. So answers to the above are still needed. And perhaps some details on the htaccess changes which may also have a bearing ion it.

Well that explains the plugin. Good to know it is not having any adverse effect. Or at least presumably so. Thanks for clarifying that FidoSysop