Borlabs Font Blocker helps you to block Google Fonts embeddings of themes and plugins automatically.
Just download it, upload it to WordPress via Plugin Management and activate it, done.
No settings are needed to block Google Fonts embeddings instantly with Borlabs Font Blocker.
In its ruling of 20.01.2022, the LG Munich (see ref. No. 3 O 17493/20) decided that integration of Google Fonts, despite invoking a legitimate interest, is contrary to data protection. Google Fonts integrations via fonts.gstatic.com and fonts.googleapis.com should therefore be blocked immediately and replaced by a local integration.
In the video you can see how to check your website for Google Fonts embedding. In our example we select "Inspect" in the context menu, this can also be called "Inspect Element".
We will now show you how to install Borlabs Font Blocker and then check your website.
We recommend creating a child theme and using this tool to download Google Fonts: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/
For our example we use WP Page Builder Framework, but the procedure is identical for all themes.
In the video, the first thing we do is download the Generate Child Theme plugin to create the child theme. Theoretically, this can also be done without the plugin - but it takes longer and requires FTP access. Generate Child Theme can also be deleted again at the end.
In the second video we will download the font using https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/. We will work a lot with Copy&Paste (CTRL + C and CTRL + V on Windows, CMD + C and CMD + V on macOS), as you can see from the superimposed letters.
After downloading the .zip file containing our fonts, we unzip the .zip file and upload the folder via WordPress Media Management.
Then we determine the path to the files, since we need this once again for the Google Font Tool.
In the Google Font Tool, we replace the "../fonts/" in the field with our path and then copy the CSS.
We then paste the CSS into the style.css of our child theme. Done.
Note: Normally fonts are not uploaded via the media management, but into the child theme folder. However, since this requires FTP access and many are overwhelmed with setting up an FTP program, we decided to show how it can be done without an FTP program.
If several different fonts are used, the process just needs to be repeated.
Borlabs Font Blocker works with WordPress 4.6 or higher, PHP 7.4 or higher.
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