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Total downloads: 891,894
Active installs: 40,000
Total reviews: 42
Average rating: 4.4
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 16 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 2/24/2019 (2501 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/4/2013 (12 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.5
Tested up to WordPress version: 5.1.21
Minimum PHP version: 5.2.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 2501 days ago • 42 reviews

26/100

Is Disable Google Fonts abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 2501 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.5
Tested up to: 5.1.21
Requires PHP: 5.2.4

Ratings

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Developers

Milan Dinić (Owner)23Milan Dinić2

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Dutch30,206Russian27,196German19,853Spanish (Venezuela)17,048Italian15,565Swedish14,890Japanese14,019Spanish (Colombia)13,464Spanish (Mexico)13,287English (UK)9,973German (Formal)9,953Spanish (Chile)8,024English (South Africa)4,595Serbian1,926

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Description

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This plugin stops loading of fonts from Google Fonts used by WordPress core, Gutenberg plugin, bundled themes (Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Seventeen), and most other themes. If theme or plugin (whose name is not listed here) uses fonts from Google Fonts, those fonts still might be loaded if that theme or plugin loads fonts from Google in a way that is incompatible with this plugin.

Reasons for not using Google Fonts might be privacy and security, local development or production, blocking of Google’s servers, characters not supported by font, performance.

Disable Google Fonts is a very lightweight, it has no settings, just activate it and it works immediately.

And it’s on GitHub.

Installation

  1. Upload disable-google-fonts folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Steve
9/30/2017

Just works

I need to use a local copy of WP with no internet access. This plugin stops WP from trying to download fonts from google and then popping up error messages, which makes things so much easier to use.
LewisCowles
3/5/2018

Works great for a raspberry Pi

So I was demonstrating my kiosk appliance with my access point appliance + LEMP stack. I installed WordPress, tested it was very fast. Like an idiot I forgot that in my flat all devices have internet access, so the fetching of Google Font by twenty-seventeen was holding up the entire page-load & render. Using your plugin takes that problem off my hands without changing theme or writing my own plugin, so 5*. I just wish you used currying instead of having so many functions that are 99% the same.
julianoe
7/19/2019

Does what it says

Good plugin to get rid of the privacy hole that is Google Fonts. I still can't understand why it was let in the Wordpress Core ...I should not need a plugin for that -_-

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Changelog

2.0

  • Released on 23rd December 2018
  • Change logic when disabling font via string translation filter.
  • Change plugin description to better explain in which situations it works.
  • Add support for WordPress 5.0, latest version of Gutenberg plugin, and most of the themes in WordPress.org Themes Repository.

1.4

  • Released on 28th September 2018
  • Remove fonts used in Gutenberg.

1.3

  • Released on 12th December 2016
  • Remove fonts used in Twenty Seventeen.

1.2

  • Released on 9th December 2015
  • Remove fonts used in Twenty Sixteen.

1.1

  • Released on 29th December 2014
  • Remove fonts used in Twenty Fifteen.
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