Description
Host your used Google fonts on your server and make your site more GDPR compliant đŻ.
About 50 mio* sites use Google Fonts and in January 2022 a German court has ruled that using Google Fonts is a violation of Europeâs GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
more on wptavern.com.
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Installation
- Upload the entire
local-google-fonts
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to Settings => Google Fonts and decide which fonts should get loaded locally
FAQ
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Will this load Google Fonts automatically?
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Yes, if you check the option to load fonts automatically. Otherwise each font set must be manually triggered.
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Is it Legal to Self-Host Google Fonts?
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Yes. The open source fonts from Google Fonts are published under a licenses that allow you to use them on any website, no matter if itâs commercial or personal.
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How to check if my site is loading Google Fonts?
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It’s easy to check if your site is loading fonts from a third party source (check 2nd screenshot above):
- Open the dev tools (Cmd + Opt + I on Mac or F12, or Ctrl + Shift + I on Windows)
- Go to the Network tab and select the Fonts type
- Reload your page to see all fonts loaded on your site.
- Check the Domain column if it contains domains from a third party (Google is fonts.gstatic.com)
If you host your fonts locally with Local Google Fonts there should be no fonts loaded from the Google servers.
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My fonts do not show up on the settings page, what can I do?
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Fonts are discovered once they are used. Try to browse your front end first and get back to the settings page.
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My fonts are not replaced, what can I do?
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The plugin currently only checks fonts embedded via
wp_enqueue_style
if you use Google fonts via@import
you have to change that first. -
The Divi theme still loads a Google font?
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The DIVI theme has a custom implementation of Google Fonts. To use LGF with DIVI disable Improve Google Fonts Loading on the Performance Settings page of DIVI.
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Why only the woff2 font format is loaded?
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Woff2 is the successor of the woff format and and offers a 30% average compression gain over the original format. It is also supported by over 96% of browsers (source).
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How to host Fonts loaded with Slider Revolution?
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Slider Revolution uses it’s own way to load Google Fonts and LGF cannot handle them. Slider Revolution has a built in feature for their sliders.
- Goto Slider Revolution
- Click on « Global » in the top navigation
- Find the « Fonts » section and Choose « Cache Fonts Local » on « Enable Google Fonts download »
- Save your settings.
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Why are some characters displayed in the fallback font?
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You may have loaded a subset which doesn’t included required characters. Check additional subsets on the settings page and reload your font.
Avis
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Historique des changements
0.22.0
- fixed: missing
$user_agent
variable - fixed: missing
$tmp_file
variable
0.21.0
- fixed: issue downloading fonts with WordPress 6.2 caused by the
download_url
method
0.20.0
- make sure files are loaded via https if requested
- new filter
lgf_folder_url
andlgf_folder
- always append timestamp to prevent caching
0.19
- please reload fonts manually if you encounter problems after the update
- completely rewriting the way fonts are loaded which to drop the need for a third party API and support more (deprecated) fonts.
- better support for multi site (thanks @ravanh)
- the original style sheet is used for better compatibility
- added Settings link on the plugins list page
- added button to manually fetch homepage for used fonts
- only woff2 fonts are now loaded for better subset support
- removed unused seed variable
0.18
- do not use
remove_query_arg
to strip args as it can break some URLs
0.17
- remove
ver
query argument from URLs as they are added by WordPress. Please review settings as fonts may have to be reloaded - introduced upgrade class for future updates
- added: welcome message after plugin activation
- added Codeable banner
- fixed: PHP warning on missing key
0.16
- using absolute path to support Google Fonts in Mailster.
0.15
- using custom mirror to prevent down times
0.14
- added info if https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/ is down
0.13
- improved: better explanations on errors.
- improved: Higher propriety for wp_resource_hints to catch them all. Fixes #8
- implemented an alias method for no longer supported fonts.
- fixed: Syntax error on older PHP versions
0.12
- Do not handle fonts sources with more than 30 families (why would you need that?)
- Add option to choose subsets for each font family
- Disable functionality in the customizer
0.11
- fixed: problem on customizer in Neve theme
- fixed wrong domain on translations
- update F.A.Q. for DIVI theme
0.10
- fixed: rending issue on some fonts (please reload fonts if you use one of these: « exo-2 », « inter », « jost » or « montserrat »)
- fixed: some styles are not recognized and therefore not loaded.
- improved: info about loaded font files on the admin screen
- added timestamp to loaded font files to prevent cached fonts get loaded.
0.9
- new: options to load fonts automatically
0.8
- updated required WP version to 4.6
- remove Text Domain header
- added missing translatable strings
0.7
- better handling of multiple « family » arguments in the URL
0.6
- loading all variants if none explicit are requested
- cache API requests
- respect font-display
- removes DNS prefetch and preconnect to Google server from page header
0.5
- added option to flush everything
0.4
- you may have to reload fonts so please check the settings page
- improved handling of fonts
- only loading required font files
- supports now different types of variant declarations
- add variants to list only if available in the source
- added some css to improve settings page
- you may have to reload fonts so please check the settings page
0.3
- add explanation info on settings page
0.2
- show info when no font is found
- better handling of translated strings
0.1
- initial release