hi guys, after running this tutorial:
My ssl serves broken page, how to fix it?
Try checking your site with: https://www.whynopadlock.com/
or provide a more detailed explanation (picture) of the problem.
Hi @grx7
you have terrible mixed content warnings / blocks.
Use FireFox / Chrome, then Ctrl + Shift + I, open the Console.
https://209.97.176.152/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
Loading this page says:
SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN - certificate only valid with
locksmithboys.com
Never load content via an ip address.
Change these links to relative links
/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
or correct absolute links:
https://locksmithboys.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.12.4
Then the browser loads these scripts -> your page will work.
it’s a standard message from WP by default. I didn’t touch it.
As Juergen said you can’t load parts of a secure page by IP address, it just doesn’t work.
Somewhere in the wordpress settings you gave it the 209.97.176.152 IP address instead of the locksmithboys.com domain name. I think it’s under settings -> general settings. The same settings page has the site title and tagline settings. Wordpress shouldn’t have the IP address in any of it’s settings.
you nailed it 
thanks a lot. it works now.
After changing it in WP admin Settings–> General it works fine
Would you guys recommend I keep my .htaccess to always redirect towards https?
Happy to see you fixed your mixed content warnings.
If your certificate works and if you are sure you can check the renew (no expired certificate): Yes, a redirect is good.
Better is the HSTS header, excellent is the preload directive (HSTS per browser).
thanks Juergen!
I saw this in regards to auto renewing the SSL certificate:
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renew-letsencrypt-certificate/34677/3
but
shows that I need to run:
$ sudo certbot renew --dry-run
How do you guys auto renew yours?
--dry-run has some limitations and uses the testsystem. So if you want to renew your certificates,
sudo certbot renew
is correct.
I have my own client 
thanks for helping out guys.