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Easy Google Fonts

v2.0.4
by Sunny Johal · 4.6 (218 reviews)

Adds google fonts to any theme without coding and integrates with the WordPress Customizer automatically for a realtime live preview.

200K+ active installs Updated Jul 23, 2021 Tested to 5.8.10 Requires PHP 7.0.0
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Easy Google Fonts

About Easy Google Fonts

Titanium Themes is launching a new WordPress theme and they are inviting customers to sign up for updates on their website. The theme allows users to easily add custom Google fonts to their WordPress site without any coding. It also has features like live preview, compatibility with any theme, and the ability to create custom font controls.

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Frequently asked questions

What does this plugin do?
This plugin allows you to take full control of your theme's typography in any WordPress theme without coding. It allows you to choose from over 600+ Google Fonts and font variants to insert into your website. You can preview font changes on your website in realtime using the WordPress Customizer.
Can I create custom font controls?
Yes, you can create unlimited custom font controls in the admin area that are instantly available in the Customizer preview. This allows you to create your own font controls and rules without coding.
How does this plugin handle theme updates?
It allows you to add Google Fonts to your theme without editing the theme's main stylesheet. This means you can update your theme without losing your custom Google Fonts.

Changelog

2.0.4 JS API

  • Added fallback for sanitization functions when no font key is selected.

2.0.3 Bugfix and Backwards Compatibilty

  • Bugfix: Tuples needed to be sorted in the google fonts url when the stylesheet url was being generated.
  • Added complete support for the old tabs based api.

2.0.2

  • Backwards Compatibilty: Added backwards compatibility for old theme integrations.

2.0.1

  • Bugfix: Google stylesheet url requires font weights to be sorted in ascending order.

2.0.0

  • Complete plugin codebase rewrite.
  • Font controls/styles now support media queries.
  • New Admin UI.
  • New Customizer UI (now uses react js components).
  • Live customizer preview has been rewritten to be more performant (by handling subsettings for each font control individually).
  • Frontend query for font controls has been optimised for performance.
  • Removed unnessary WordPress filters.

1.4.4 – WordPress 5.0 compatibility update

  • Updated webfonts.json with the latest google fonts.
  • Last minor update before major rewrite.

1.4.3 – WordPress 4.8 compatibility update

  • Updated webfonts.json with the latest google fonts.
  • Updated includes class-egf-frontend.php to only output styles if there is a selector.

1.4.2 – WordPress 4.7 compatibility update

  • Fixed issue where the font controls weren’t saving in WordPress 4.7.
  • Updated the font list.

1.4.1 – Urgent update

  • Fixed issue where the plugin wasn’t taking effect for screen sizes under 700px

1.4.0 – Plugin update

  • Now automatically removes white spaces added to the api key on the settings page.
  • Started rewriting part of the code for eventual media query support.

1.3.9 – Stylesheet Update

  • Updated the appearance in the customizer for the new changes in WordPress 3.4

1.3.7 – Important Update

  • Addressed potential security issue on the plugin admin page – Hardened security and escaped any attributes passed via the URL throughout the plugin.
  • Now added support for arabic and telegu and devangari subsets.
  • Updated JSON decode when parsing fonts for servers running an older version of PHP.

1.3.6 – Updated Stylesheet Enqueue

  • Addressed issue on certain servers where a 400 error was being returned when making a http request to google.

1.3.5 – Changed Stylesheet Enqueue

  • Removed esc_url_raw() as it was causing a 404 error when fetching the stylesheet from google.

1.3.4 – Customizer js API Update

  • Implemented font search to make it easier to browse google fonts (using the chosen js plugin).
  • Implemented border controls.
  • Implemented border radius controls.
  • Completely rewritten the control javascript to utilise the new customizer js api (using backbone and underscore templates).
  • Preview performance enhancement: Completely rewritten the preview javascript to utilise the new customizer js api.
  • Performance update: Each font control now only registers one setting per control.
  • Performance update: The functionality for each font control is lazy loaded to increase the customizer load speed.
  • All settings for each font controls are handled by json objects (removed any hidden inputs and json2 library dependancy).

1.3.3 – WordPress 4.1+ Update

  • Added patch for WordPress 4.1
  • The code is going to be rewritten in Backbone for future releases.

1.3.2 – Big Update

  • Now combining all of the font requests from google fonts in a single http request.
  • Introducing Panels: A new customizer feature in WordPress 4.0 that makes it easier to manage alot of font controls. Our plugin creates a new panel called Typography.
  • Google fonts are now separated into the following categories to make them easier to navigate: Serif, Sans Serif, Display, Handwriting, Monospace.
  • Now the plugin keeps font state when user switches page in customizer.
  • Now there is a separate section for default and custom font controls.
  • Improved the help tab in the admin area to help people obtain a google api key.
  • Synchronised Force Styles between the Manage Font Controls and the Edit Font Controls Screen
  • Fixed issue with the font weights not showing up for the customizer control.
  • The plugin now checks and handles occurances where theme developers have removed all default controls.

1.3.1

  • Changed order of style outputs
  • Futher UI Improvements

1.3

  • Critical Update: Made the plugin WordPress 3.9 compatible
  • Performance tuned the plugin
  • Removed recursion during runtime.
  • Updated local font list

1.2.5

  • Performance enhancement for older browsers implemented. Safe to upgrade.

1.2

  • Big Update: Complete Rewrite of Plugin
  • New controls: Background Color, Margin, Padding and Display.
  • Added Subset support.
  • Introduced a large amount of actions and filters for theme developers.
  • Big performance enhancement. The old version used to register 32 settings per control, this is now down to 3.
  • Lightning fast customizer loading times, under 1 second.
  • Rewrote the plugin into classes and views to make it more managable for future development.
  • Rewrote the plugin into classes.
  • MO/PO language files now included.

= 1.1.1=
* 3.8 Admin integration

1.1

  • Full google fonts transient integration.

1.0

  • First plugin release.

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