I usually try to avoid Google products, especially when it comes to web tracking, although I’m a big fan of what they do in other technologies.
Today I was testing another WordPress Theme called Fluida, a free theme from Cryout Creations. It’s clean and simple, the only thing that bothers me, is the usage of the Google Fonts API. Even if you don’t enter a Google Font in the settings, it’s connecting to the API.
Google Fonts has advantages as well as disadvantages. Read more about it here.
There are a few WordPress plugins to remove Google Fonts (e.g. Autoptimize), but I tried to avoid another plugin and wanted to do it manually. After a short search through the theme I found “includes/styles.php”. There you just had to comment out the following lines and it’s done.
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | // Google fonts $gfonts = array();$roots = array();foreach ( $cryout_theme_structure['google-font-enabled-fields'] as $item ) { $itemg = $item . 'google'; $itemw = $item . 'weight'; // custom font names if ( ! empty( $options[$itemg] ) && ! preg_match( '/custom\sfont/i', $options[$item] ) ) { if ( $item == _CRYOUT_THEME_PREFIX . '_fgeneral' ) { $gfonts[] = cryout_gfontclean( $options[$itemg], ":100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900" ); // include all weights for general font } else { $gfonts[] = cryout_gfontclean( $options[$itemg], ":".$options[$itemw] ); }; $roots[] = cryout_gfontclean( $options[$itemg] ); } // preset google fonts if ( preg_match('/^(.*)\/gfont$/i', $options[$item], $bits ) ) { if ( $item == _CRYOUT_THEME_PREFIX . '_fgeneral' ) { $gfonts[] = cryout_gfontclean( $bits[1], ":100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900" ); // include all weights for general font } else { $gfonts[] = cryout_gfontclean( $bits[1], ":".$options[$itemw] ); }; $roots[] = cryout_gfontclean( $bits[1] ); }}; |