Title: Disable Google Fonts
Author: Milan Dinić
Published: <strong>ଡିସେମ୍ବର 4, 2013</strong>
Last modified: ଫେବୃୟାରୀ 24, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Disable Google Fonts

 By [Milan Dinić](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimadin/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/disable-google-fonts.2.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/)

## Description

[Plugin homepage](https://milandinic.com/wordpress/plugins/disable-google-fonts/)
| [Plugin author](https://milandinic.com/) | [Donate](https://milandinic.com/donate/)

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](https://github.com/dimadin/disable-google-fonts).

## Installation

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

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Helped](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helped-6/)󠁿

 [trippplepain](https://profiles.wordpress.org/trippplepain/) ସେପ୍ଟେମ୍ବର 26, 2022

I put the folder in my plugins, installed the plugin and then all google fonts get
banned. THX it really helps – TripPplePain Streamer and Merch – #streamer #twitch#
merch #TryAngel

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Good work, man](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-work-man/)󠁿

 [televizor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/televizor/) ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ 10, 2020

Thank you!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Successfully tested (WP 5.2.2, Twenty Thirteen)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/successfully-tested-wp-5-2-2-twenty-thirteen/)󠁿

 [robert_n](https://profiles.wordpress.org/robert_n/) ଅଗଷ୍ଟ 27, 2019

I tested this with Wordpress 5.2.2 and the theme “Twenty Thirteen” and it works 
perfectly. Before the plugin was activated: 2 third party requests according to 
Webbkoll tester. After the plugin was activated: 0 third party requests. Thank you
for this great plugin.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d4661cf0e914fd8c33ffa65a67dedde18d4f5ec60b2ff5c92379822a366e5a8?
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### 󠀁[Does what it says](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-what-it-says-823/)󠁿

 [julianoe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/julianoe/) ଜୁଲାଈ 19, 2019

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 -_-

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5fd216922c44a5de3c12945f290e9f6ac7d77078f6d21479ce81b3482ad4a1bc?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Did absolutely nothing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/did-absolutely-nothing-2/)󠁿

 [Heartfullyheather](https://profiles.wordpress.org/heartfullyheather/) ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ 
13, 2019

It didn’t do anything and yes I made sure it was activated. Guess I will uninstall
and try a different one.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-5506/)󠁿

 [simplypeachy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/simplypeachy/) ଜାନୁୟାରୀ 13, 2019

Thanks to this plugin my web site no longer subjects readers to Google’s tracking
and removes a possible, if unlikely, security weakness. Thanks Milan!

 [ Read all 42 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Disable Google Fonts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Milan Dinić ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimadin/)

“Disable Google Fonts” has been translated into 14 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-google-fonts/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Disable Google Fonts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-google-fonts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-google-fonts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disable-google-fonts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-google-fonts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/disable-google-fonts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## 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.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.22**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/), [English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [Serbian](https://sr.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/),
   and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-google-fonts)
 * Tags
 * [google fonts](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-fonts/)[Google Web Fonts](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-web-fonts/)
   [Open Sans](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/open-sans/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ory.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-google-fonts/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  35 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  6 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Milan Dinić ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimadin/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-google-fonts/)

## Donate

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