How to turn off SSL certificate validation when using WordPress’s WP_Http API call

Background

At times you might want to avoid certificate checking when developing a WordPress application. This could especially be true when you are developing on localhost or in a development environment where HTTPS is available but it’s using a self-signed certificate. WP-Http calls will fail and it will be difficult to see under the hood what’s happening if this occurs.

Use this command to turn off SSL validation:

add_filter( 'https_ssl_verify', '__return_false' );

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