WordPress VIP incident
Let’s Encrypt Service Disruption Impacting Certificate Automation
WordPress VIP experienced a notice incident on December 16, 2025 affecting WordPress VIP Dashboard, lasting 27m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Dec 16, 2025, 04:16 PM UTC
Let’s Encrypt is currently seeing service disruptions which may result in failed or delayed TLS certificate issuance and renewals for customers using automatic certificate management. https://letsencrypt.status.io/ Only customers requesting new certificates or renewals via Let’s Encrypt are impacted; existing certificates remain valid until expiry. We’ll continue monitoring and share updates as they become available.
- monitoring Dec 16, 2025, 04:24 PM UTC
Certificate issuance and renewals via Let’s Encrypt appear to be succeeding normally at this time. https://letsencrypt.status.io/ We will continue to monitor.
- resolved Dec 16, 2025, 04:29 PM UTC
This incident is now resolved: https://letsencrypt.status.io/