The decision for a portal is up to Scrubmeister as he is footing the bill. I haven't gotten that far yet. I've only updated SMF so far and only did that cause of security concerns. Just about all of the mods over there need updating which is on my to-do list.
Thanks for reminding me about using HTTPS. I've been back and forth between there and my VPS and getting a bit scatter-brained. I just checked and all forums there currently has a free cPanel issued SSL except for the demo site...it not on the list. I think I remember Maxx saying something about working on those when I was doing mine but I was not of staff there until after Maxx went MIA so there's still some things unanswered about what he was trying to do.
And I did run repair_settings.php and think I was cut short on time and never finished changing all of the links as I was checking each one. But I need Scrubmeister to ask the hosting to add it cause I don't see anything in cPanel to install it...
EDIT: The demo site was not never added as a subdomain and is why it wasn't showing on the SSL list. This is now fixed and everything is now HTTPS and HTTP is forced to HTTPS.
There are issues with external links and images on the main site that prevent it from showing as secured but those can be fixed. You can check it vis this link:
http://www.jpr62.com/demos/index.php?theme=4I still haven't finished running repair_settings on all of the themes but they should still show as HTTPS.
The only thing stopping it from showing was the url to the logo which is now fixed. Now all I need is the codes for the themes so they all can be updated.