WordPress’ Legacy Default Themes Updated to Bundle Google Fonts Locally – WP Tavern

WordPress contributors have up to date the legacy default themes to bundle Google Fonts domestically within the theme folder, as an alternative of loading them from Google’s servers. In years previous, loading fonts from the the Google CDN was the advisable follow for efficiency causes, however new privateness issues have emerged following a German court docket case, which fined a website owner for violating the GDPR by using Google-hosted webfonts, 

The entire default themes from Twenty Twelve to Twenty Seventeen have been up to date. The method started 9 month in the past however the method took a while for contributors to refine. Updates to default themes are normally finished in coordination with main and minor releases of WordPress, as core contributor Jonathan Desrosiers defined within the ticket.

“The rationale the updates are normally coordinated is that the themes are normally up to date to be suitable with new variations of WordPress, so releasing on the similar time makes a whole lot of sense,” Desrosiers stated. “Additionally, the variety of contributors that target the tickets inside the Bundled Themes part is normally very low except these compatibility points are being addressed.”

A dev observe to accompany these updates to the legacy default themes was published to WordPress.org. It incorporates code examples for serving a brand new stylesheet from the theme listing, fixing the editor type inside a customized theme-setup operate, eradicating the font stylesheet, and together with a customized set of fonts in a toddler theme. This alteration significantly impacts those that have edited or eliminated the font stylesheet in a toddler theme of those default themes or a plugin.

WordPress’ Themes Crew has strongly urged theme authors to switch to locally hosted webfonts, and is anticipated to formally ban remotely hosted fonts following WordPress’ legacy default themes getting up to date.