OMGF Pro helping WordPress cross the street.

“Helping an old lady cross the street”: OMGF Pro v3.12 adds WP Font Manager Support

Last week WP 6.5 was released, introducing the Font Manager among other things. Helping an old lady cross the street, that’s what it felt like to add Font Manager support to OMGF Pro v3.12. The Font Manager’s performance was severely lacking, so I decided that OMGF Pro should be the hero to save the day….

Theme Authors “forced” to Catch Up: Hosting Webfonts Locally “Strongly Encouraged”
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Theme Authors “forced” to Catch Up: Hosting Webfonts Locally “Strongly Encouraged”

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…

Google Analytics in EU? Not exactly.
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Google Analytics illegal in Austria? Well, not exactly.

Only two weeks into the new year, the internet exploded, because of a court ruling in Austria. Is Google Analytics illegal now? In Austria, not exactly. In the rest of the EU, no. And it won’t be. Although it was a great day for Privacy last week, it was a dark day for website (and…