Remove Google Fonts

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1. ★★★★★ areebsooyasir

   8.9y ago

   In my own blog I removed Google Fonts manually and I will explain why people should care about never using these fonts. googleapis.com is blocked in China so no one in China can see any site using Google Fonts basically it just won’t load since the .css fonts basically come first. This plugin saves so much time rather than manual code editing here is the manual step for example so thanks to the author! ============== edit theme css: Click “Appearance -> Editor -> Stylesheet” http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php?file=style.css&theme=twentysixteen textarea { color: #1a1a1a; /*font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;*/ font-family: “Lucida Sans Unicode”, “Lucida Grande”, sans-serif line 210 edit wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/functions.php //return $fonts_url; return 0; #another problem is that in the code this shows up still: <link rel=’stylesheet’ id=’open-sans-css’ href=’https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A300italic%2C400italic%2C600italic%2C300%2C400%2C600&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&ver=4.4.11&#8242; type=’text/css’ media=’all’ /> edit wp-includes/script-loader.php line 708: $open_sans_font_url = “https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,300,400,600&subset=$subsets&#8221;; $open_sans_font_url = “”;

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2. ★★★★★ NUCUTA

   10.3y ago

   now the default font in the back end is sans-serif. It’s fine for me as it’s not for the viewers.

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3. ★★★★★ mshkrebtan

   10.5y ago

   Thanks! Works with Twenty Sixteen as well.

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4. ★★★★★ byronyasgur

   10.6y ago

   wow – if I want to load fonts I can do it myself – shaved a half second of load time in one stroke – thanks

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5. ★★★★★ Pieter Bos

   11.7y ago

   If the WP Dev Team would not be so USA centric, then they could add this to Core. In some countries Google is completely blocked, that includes fonts.googleapis.com URLs A simple tickbox to switch Google Fonts off altogether would be all that is needed. Fortunately Suifeng has come up with the solution and keeps it updated!

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6. ★★★★★ Mohammad Taqui Sayed

   11.9y ago

   This open sans font was slowing down the page speed and hence my work in local development and I was going to create a plugin for it, but this plugin saved my time. Thanks.

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7. ★★★★★ suifengtec

   12.5y ago

   如果你所在地区的运营商对谷歌的IP不是很友好，这个很有用！ 1.2.0支持移除WordPress4.1的默认主题twentyfifteen中的三种谷歌字体链接。 如果你仅用WordPress默认安装环境进行开发测试，这个更有用！

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-04-20 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-04-19 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-18 800+ → 700+ down after 11 days in tier
4. 2026-04-07 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-04-06 800+ → 700+ down after 224 days in tier
6. 2025-08-25 900+ → 800+ down after 5 days in tier
7. 2025-08-20 800+ → 900+ up after 3 days in tier
8. 2025-08-17 900+ → 800+ down after 140 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• D Disable Google Fonts 40K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• Twentyfifteen Noto Sans JP 50+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• Custom Fonts – Host Your Fonts Locally 400K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
• Use Any Font | Custom Font Uploader 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts & Upload Fonts 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• Disable and Remove Google Fonts | GDPR & DSGVO friendly 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A

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Remove Google Fonts: 700+ active installs, 5.0★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/remove-open-sans-font-from-wp-core