You’ll also need a basic understanding of PHP and Bash. The hard way to remove Google Fonts from your WordPress theme involves creating a child theme. In mostly all other cases, I seriously suggest you step back to the previous chapter. This option is mostly convenient, if you’re already running all sorts of custom optimizations on your site, preventing you to install Autoptimize. Hard: Manually remove Fonts from WordPress using a Child Theme Now, if for some reason you don’t like easy, and you skipped reading this entire chapter, because it was too short and boring for you. Select ‘ remove Google Fonts‘ from the Google Fonts options menu,.How to Remove Google Fonts using AutoptimizeĪssuming you’ve already installed Autoptimize from the WordPress Plugin Directory, go to its settings page ( Settings > Autoptimize) and: Today we’re going to discuss different ways - in varying difficulties - to remove Google Fonts from WordPress. You might want to get rid of them entirely.

If you’re an absolute speed-freak, and you don’t care for Google Fonts.

To make this process easier, I created OMGF: a WordPress plugin which automatically downloads any Google Fonts it finds and serves them from your server. But moving them to your server can be quite an exhausting process, especially if you’re using a lot of different fonts, weights and styles. That’s why it’s a smart choice to move external files to your own server and host them locally. External requests slow down your site’s loading speed. It might be a design or programming choice, but in most cases the reason is site optimization. Your motivation to remove the externally hosted Google Fonts from your blog may differ. Version 1.9.0 contains an experimental option to remove any Google Fonts that are enqueued in your WordPress blog.īut, for those where it doesn’t work, or for those that want to have full control, I provided an alternative: a complete guide on how to remove Google Fonts from your WordPress Theme. I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately, to implement a ‘Remove Google Fonts’-option into OMGF.Īfter a lot of research (a few months!) I managed to implement an efficient way to do it.

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