Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally

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265 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 245 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 8 months ago and the previous band took 3.8 years to cross, so the real count is still just over 400K.

1. ★★★★★ pdwalker

   1.7y ago

   The fonts were easy to upload and define, but I was unable to see the new fonts afterwards. After trying different themes, different options and different settings for an hour, I was unable to make it work. If the plugin really does work, then some explicit instructions from the developer on how to actually make it work would be really helpful. As it ism I cannot use it.

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2. ★★★★★ Nick

   2.2y ago

   Had the same problem as others on the forum: selected Google fonts aren’t visible in the elementor dropdown box. I disabled all other plugins except Elementor. No joy. The administrators say it works for them. So good luck with that. I also tried downloading the fonts I wanted and uploading them again to Custom Fonts but this caused other problems. Have now dumped Custom Fonts and use another plugin.

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3. ★★★★★ annssi

   2.3y ago

   Italics are not working. As soon as they are added as a font variant all variants are shown as italics. Thus you need to set-up the italics as a separate font which makes it really cumbersome to use.This problem has been around for over a year and it seems nothing has been done to fix it. Not impressed. 🙁

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4. ★★★★★ Skylabb

   2.3y ago

   There are probably a dozen of fonts plugins out there with many if not most of them still use Customizer interface. Moving forward with the future of WordPress, you want the plugin to be compatible with Full Site Editing framework, and this plugin works well with the new framework.

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5. ★★★★★ revayatejahad

   2.5y ago

   in lines 194 of following path, there was a problem … In the provided code snippet, the issue was occurring in the remove_custom_font_google_url method. This method is responsible for removing custom fonts from the Google fonts URL array. The problem was with the line: php code: if ( $value['font_fallback'] ) { Here, the code was trying to access the font_fallback index of $value directly without ensuring that $value['font_fallback'] exists and is not null. This could lead to issues if $value['font_fallback'] is not set. To fix this, I made the following changes: I added a check to see if $value['font_fallback'] exists and is not null using isset(): php code: if ( isset( $value['font_fallback'] ) && $value['font_fallback'] ) { If $value['font_fallback'] exists and is not null, then $value['font_fallback'] is appended to $font_key. Otherwise, $font_key remains the same. By adding this check, we ensure that the code doesn’t try to access an undefined index, which could lead to the “Trying to access array offset on value of type bool” warning. Instead, it first checks if the index exists before attempting to access it.

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6. ★★★★★ emily2024

   2.5y ago

   The last plugin I tried before this had a paywall to upload more than one weight variation of one font. Unbelievable. Considering most good fonts have 8+ variations, I thought other plugins were probably running the same scheme BUT this plugin literally allows you to upload not just as many variations as you want but several different families as well. In the FREE version!! This plugin is a godsend

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7. ★★★★★ joedwork1

   2.5y ago

   Thanks for making the plugin, integrated seamlessly for bold/regular fonts. If I make font styles/add the Woff2 italic assets as italics within the same font family as regular and bold fonts in the control panel, Elementor gravitates to the italic font and makes everything italic regardless if default/regular is selected in the style dropdown of Elementor editor. For now I have to make separate fonts for italic and regular versions and ignore the italic/regular selector in Elementor Page builder. Or probably forever because I see a bad review regarding this from 9 months time ago The good news is that if Italic is selected for the base font already set throughout the site in Elementor Editor, Elementor attempts to augment the Italic, just not with the assets provided since those have to be a separate font within this plugins control panel in reality. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by joedwork1. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by joedwork1. This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by joedwork1.

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8. ★★★★★ lucasbustamante

   2.7y ago

   Works well

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.1.17 Improved codebase for improved security. (Props to Wordfence) 2.1.17
2. — Version 2.1.16 Custom fonts plugin tested with WordPress 6.9 version. 2.1.16
3. — Version 2.1.15 Updated plugin with few extra information for clarity. 2.1.15
4. — Version 2.1.14 Fix: Prevented early translation loading error by initializing text domain strings on init hook. Fix: Ensure SVG icons inside Add button propagate click events properly by adjusting pointer-events styling = 2.1.13 – Cust 2.1.14
5. — Version 2.1.6 Improvement: Few string from admin dashboard app doesn’t have text domain support. (Props – https://github.com/pedro-mendonca) 2.1.6
6. — Version 2.1.5 Improved codebase for improved security. 2.1.5

All 2 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (2.1.17). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.3 Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally <= 2.1.16 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Font Deletion ↗
   2026-01-19 CVE-2025-14351 Missing Authorization Affects <= 2.1.16 Patched in 2.1.17
2. Patched Medium · 6.4 Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally <= 2.1.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-05-23 CVE-2024-1332 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affects <= 2.1.4 Patched in 2.1.5

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 26 languages, 14 at 90% or more

Plus 2 more locales with partial translations.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-03-19 300K+ → 400K+ up after 1387 days in tier
2. 2022-06-01 200K+ → 300K+ up after 417 days in tier
3. 2021-04-10 100K+ → 200K+ up after 414 days in tier
4. 2020-02-21 90K+ → 100K+ up after 39 days in tier
5. 2020-01-13 50K+ → 90K+ up after 144 days in tier
6. 2019-08-22 10K+ → 50K+ up after 294 days in tier
7. 2018-11-01 9K+ → 10K+ up after 31 days in tier
8. 2018-10-01 8K+ → 9K+ up after 30 days in tier

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Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally: 400K+ active installs, 4.3★ (62 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-fonts