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Web Fonts

by nickohrn · Uncategorized

Also makes 9 other plugins · 550+ installs across the portfolio →

Start using web fonts on your site today! Support for web fonts from Fonts.com and Google Web Fonts is included.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
38 Health · F
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 56/100
Support 70/100

38 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, well behind 6.8.

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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4753 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+66% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 73

6630d 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

Web Fonts · #13200 you TypeSquare Webfonts · #443 TK Google Fonts GDPR · #5953 Supreme Google Webfo · #6311

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.3Stars · 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.

660per 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

13.0y ago

latest release · v1.1.6

13

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.6 · 13.0y ago1.1.5 · 14.4y ago1.1.4 · 14.4y ago1.1.2 · 14.5y ago1.1.1 · 14.5y ago1.1.0 · 14.5y ago1.1.0-RC2 · 14.5y ago1.1.0-RC1 · 14.5y ago1.0.4 · 14.5y ago1.0.3 · 14.5y ago1.0.2 · 14.5y ago1.0.1 · 14.6y ago1.0.0 · 14.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈140

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

Install history · since 2015-03-16 · 1,381 observations

100Installs · 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. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.1.6
Last updated
13.0y ago
Added
2012-01-20 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
3.6.1
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. hacktisch
    8.6y ago

    I don’t understand why the downvotes. In the newest version of WP now January 2018 the plugin still works after 4 years of nu updates. I entered my fonts.com API key, and the fonts load into the site directly. I think the other users just didn’t understand how to use this plugin. Anyways I’m here to tell you it does work with fonts.com

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  2. Posicionamiento Web Barato
    12.2y ago

    Este plugin permite agregar distintas fuentes a mi sitio de wordpress dando una apariencia agradable, es una solución simple para incorporar Google fonts a nuestros sitios webs. Una vez que lo he configurado su funcionamiento es mucho más sencillo, pero es un poco dificil para ser configurado por el usuario promedio

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  3. omigosh
    12.9y ago

    This plug in does nothing other than give you a link to either Google or Fonts.com. You have to do all the work from there. You can get free fonts from Google, Adobe or Fonts.com without having to use this plug in and you don’t need to identify yourself with an API key either.

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  4. Chris Burbridge
    13.4y ago

    Uses its own control panel area (I prefer if plugins only do this if they are quite important). Requires API key for Google fonts. This is not hard to do. It’s like… 3 steps. Shows samples of all fonts, and you can search on the fonts, as well as sort alphabetically, or by popularity, etc. This would be terrific, only I could not find how to get the selectors to work. In other words, for some reason, the data would not save to activate the selectors. Also, I am not sure if it lets you see all the different font variants, which would be helpful.

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  5. robotarmy
    13.6y ago

    This plugin DOES NOT WORK right from the gate. There is no support. There is a post on support that has been UNANSWERED for 8 months. This is clearly a way for them to get you to subscribe to their subscription service—a dis-service to WP users. Why do I have to give one star?

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  6. illusiodesign
    13.6y ago

    The connection to the fonts.com server is unreliable with this plugin. So chances are, your site will have potential for some serious lag.

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  7. siriusly
    13.6y ago

    Doesn’t seem that the author is supporting this plugin any longer. I’d be delighted to change the rating if there is some response in the forum.

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  8. tonygill99
    13.7y ago

    I was very excited to discover this plugin, because I’m working on a small WordPress site for a friend and have been asked to use a single web font from fonts.com for all of the text. However, after several days trying various approaches, I’ve given up on this plugin, because it just doesn’t work. It’s much easier to simply use the fonts.com user interface and just paste a single line of JavaScript code into the header.php template of the child theme. A pity, because this plugin would have saved me a lot of time if it had worked!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-16 200+ → 100+ down after 718 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-28 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-06-27 200+ → 300+ up after 5 days in tier
  4. 2024-06-22 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-06-21 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-06-20 300+ → 200+ down after 349 days in tier
  7. 2023-07-07 400+ → 300+ down after 258 days in tier
  8. 2022-10-22 500+ → 400+ down

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Web Fonts: 100+ active installs, 2.3★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/web-fonts