In light of the recent GDPR related fines in Germany, the WordPress.org themes team took a stand on hosting webfonts locally. Representative @benachi recently announced that it “strongly encourages theme authors to update their themes” and to “download and bundle Google Fonts with their themes”. For long-time followers of this blog, this good practice has…
Optimizing WordPress Google Fonts has become more imporant than ever! Ever since the GDPR has made it mandatory to host Google Fonts locally website owners have been scourging the web to find a solution. What if I told you there’s more to WordPress Google Fonts optimization than just copying the files to your server? This…
Since the recent court ruling in Germany, OMGF has gained over 10.000+ active users — and is still growing! The vast increase in users is more than enough reason for a celebration, but the equally vast amount of feedback I’ve received over the last few weeks forced me to zoom in on certain aspects and…
The GDPR strikes again! While Austria and Norway are taking on Google Analytics, on January 20th, 2022, the regional court of Munich, Germany ordered a € 100,- fine to a website owner. Why? Because using Google Fonts violates GDPR.
Ensure text remains visible during webfont load. When optimizing your WordPress site for Google PageSpeed Insights you will probably come across this optimization suggestion if you use Google Fonts or any other type of Webfonts. The language Google chooses to describe its optimization suggestions (or anything, really) can be confusing. That’s why I thought it’d…
The holidays are coming and lines are already forming outside my webstore for Black Friday. People are putting down sleeping mats and pitching tents outside — no, not like that you perve. In order to prevent riots I figured it’d be best to spread out the madness throughout the entire month and turn Black Friday…