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Easy Google Fonts

by Sunny Johal · Uncategorized

Also makes 1 other plugin · 110K+ installs across the portfolio →

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

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

53 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 90/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1859 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+0% vs prior 30d
55Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

1.6K

now · peak 11.8K

1.6K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Easy Google Fonts · #335 you No Google Fonts · #31204 Supreme Google Webfo · #6332 Google Web Fonts Cus · #7270

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

16per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

5.1y ago

latest release · v1.4.4

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.4 · 5.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 79% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 79%
v1.4 19%
Older / other versions 2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100K–200K ≈190K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-07-14 · 1,500 observations

100KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
2.0.4
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2013-11-21 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
5.8
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP
7.0.0

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. dear1mirror
    2.5y ago

    Unfortunatelty it does not work on version 6.4.3 (LTS). The advertised “Typography” section does not appear… After installation I cannot access any new options to add fonts.

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  2. dsitechmktg
    2.6y ago

    This plugin made it easy to add specific Google fonts to different levels of text on my website, and done globally which is easy

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  3. minachu
    4.5y ago

    AVG and Avast anti-virus both detect Trojan error in wp-content/plugins/easy-google-fonts/src/dist/preview.js Easy Google Fonts team need to fix this issue, until then, I don’t recommend this plugin to anyone.

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  4. Anonymous User 17676736
    4.9y ago

    I installed it but it doesn’t work. It’s not easy as the plugin title says.

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  5. sarahjen
    5.1y ago

    Totally new to wordpress and this plug in was super easy to use and allowed me to change fonts with no problem. The support also gave me CSS selector (I have NO knowledge of CSS…) to change the navigation font. Huge thank you!

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  6. Anonymous User
    5.1y ago

    Works well. Some issues with a recent upgrade, but support was excellent and problem is now resolved.

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  7. Benjamin Lukoff
    5.1y ago

    This plugin does one thing and it does that well: integrates Google Fonts into your WordPress site. A recent update did cause some issues on my site but the developer’s response to my query was super fast and after doing what he suggested my site is back to normal. Big fan of this plugin.

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  8. megleonardco
    5.1y ago

    The latest updates caused issues with the plugin working properly on my site. The team very quickly responded and fixed the issue! This plugin is great for getting very specific with font styling, highly recommend.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 2.0.4 Added fallback for sanitization functions when no font key is selected. 2.0.4
  2. Version 2.0.3 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. 2.0.3
  3. Version 2.0.2 Backwards Compatibilty: Added backwards compatibility for old theme integrations. 2.0.2
  4. Version 2.0.1 Bugfix: Google stylesheet url requires font weights to be sorted in ascending order. 2.0.1
  5. Version 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 handl 2.0.0
  6. Version 1.4.4 Updated webfonts.json with the latest google fonts. Last minor update before major rewrite. 1.4.4

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7.2

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 63 languages, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Russian 99%
Spanish (Spain) 51%
Romanian 41%
German 40%
Japanese 38%
Croatian 35%
English (Canada) 35%
English (UK) 35%
Portuguese (Portugal) 35%
French (France) 33%
Dutch 28%
Dutch (Formal) 25%
Swedish 24%
Italian 23%
Czech 20%
Spanish (Venezuela) 10%
Azerbaijani 9%
Cebuano 8%
English (South Africa) 8%
Assamese 6%
English (Australia) 6%
Finnish 6%
Hebrew 6%
Moroccan Arabic 6%

Plus 39 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-04-06 200K+ → 100K+ down after 838 days in tier
  2. 2022-12-20 300K+ → 200K+ down

Competes with

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