I want the website to be secure, especially since we want to add forum support. If people are logging in with passwords, I want them to be secure. To do this, we have to make sure our wordpress site is using HTTPS instead of simple HTTP. To accomplish this, I went to Settings > General and changed the “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” to use “https” instead of “http”. Voila, the site is now secure, and passwords will be encrypted by default!
Cheers,
Corey Bird