EasyFonts – Host Google Fonts Locally, Fast & Auto-Optimize, GDPR Compliant

Changelog

2.0.2

• New: per-page font scoping. Each page now loads only the fonts it actually uses. Many themes (e.g. Blocksy) enqueue their whole Google-fonts set on every page; Easy Fonts now measures what each page really renders (in a real browser) and leaves the unused families off that page’s stylesheet — while still hosting them on the pages that do use them. Matching is done at the family level and is self-correcting: a font is scoped out only after the page has been measured, it returns automatically if the page starts using it, and a font is never dropped from a page that hasn’t been measured yet.
• Fixed: a font declared on a page is no longer wrongly dropped from the combined CSS because of a weight/style mismatch (e.g. a single-weight family used at a bold weight). Usage is now matched per family.
• Improved: the combined stylesheet is unique per page font-set and shared when identical. Pages that use the same fonts reuse the same cached file; a page with a different set gets its own. Identical sets are never regenerated, saving CPU and disk.
• Improved: used/unused classification stays current. Beacon measurements now refresh hourly instead of being locked for a week, so a font that starts (or stops) being used is reflected quickly, and “Optimize” forces an immediate fresh measurement of the homepage.
• Fixed: preloads are accurate and page-specific. A font is preloaded on a page only when it actually renders above the fold there (matched per family, so a face the browser shows at a different weight than the hosted file — e.g. a single-weight family shown bold — still preloads correctly). A font above the fold on just one page is preloaded only on that page; a font above the fold on every page is preloaded everywhere from a cached set, with no per-page lookup. Your manual “always preload” choices are respected wherever the family is used.
• Fixed: page counts and usage are keyed by the page path, so cache-buster and probe parameters (and tracking/builder query strings) can no longer inflate the dashboard with duplicate rows.
• Improved: URL exclusions now match precisely — “/cart” no longer also excludes “/cart-guide”. Patterns match the exact path or a path-segment prefix, and support wildcards (e.g. “/shop/*”).
• Improved: when the master toggle is off, Easy Fonts adds nothing at all to the front end (no measurement or helper scripts).
• Improved: front-end scripts are now served minified.
• Performance: fewer database writes per page render (font registration is batched), usage logging is batched into a single write and rate-limited per page, and a dead database index was retired.
• Security/hardening: strict sanitisation of all values written into the generated @font-face CSS; stylesheet fetching is restricted to public hosts (internal/private addresses are blocked) with parsed-host provider matching; and local stylesheet reads are limited to genuine .css files with path-traversal blocked.
• Developer: filters easyfonts_page_scope_fonts (set false to disable per-page scoping), easyfonts_force_families (always-load safelist), easyfonts_preload_cap, and easyfonts_beacon_throttle_hours.

2.0.1

• Fixed: rare white screen / blank front-end on some hosts (esp. FastCGI/cgi-fcgi). Font binaries are no longer downloaded during a visitor’s page render — they are fetched by a non-blocking background warm request, so a slow or blocked outbound connection can never stall the page.
• Fixed: the output buffer now fails open — if anything goes wrong while optimising a page, the original HTML is always returned instead of a blank page.
• Improved: provider tags are only removed once their fonts are confirmed hosted locally, so the page never loses its fonts while the cache warms.
• Improved: provider stylesheet CSS is cached, so font detection no longer hits the network on every page load.
• Hardened: guard for WordPress’s HTML API, safer regex handling, and PHP 7.4 compatibility shims.
• Note: no settings, styling, or features changed. After activation (or after changing fonts) the first visit serves the original fonts for a moment while the cache warms in the background, then switches to self-hosted automatically. You can also warm immediately from Settings → Optimize.
• Fixed: the real cause of the blank front-end — two regular expressions that scanned the whole page (the inline processor and the Web Font Loader remover) could exhaust the PCRE2 engine on large pages (e.g. page-builder inline CSS or big inline scripts) and either return nothing or crash the PHP worker, blanking the page with no catchable error. Both are now linear text scans that cannot backtrack or overflow.
• Hardened: every remaining regular expression that rewrites page/CSS content now falls back to the original content if the engine fails, so a pattern can never blank the page. Added a final safety net that discards the processed page if it ever comes out empty.
• Added: a size cap for individual inline blocks (filterable) to skip pathologically large blocks safely.

2.0.0

• New: real-browser usage measurement — see which fonts render and which are above the fold.
• New: smart auto-preload of above-the-fold fonts (capped) for better LCP; your manual choices are always respected.
• New: zero-CLS metric-matched fallback fonts generated from real font metrics.
• New: detect and self-host fonts from inline CSS, theme/plugin CSS, external/CDN stylesheets, and the Web Font Loader (webfont.js).
• New: optional async / JS-injected Google Fonts blocker.
• New: full subset selection (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese, Arabic, Devanagari, CJK, and more).
• New: CDN support for hosted fonts and the stylesheet.
• New: inline the combined stylesheet as minified CSS (not render-blocking).
• New: per-family and per-weight Load / Preload control, with used vs unused grouping.
• New: settings Import / Export.
• New: Multisite support and WP-CLI commands.
• New: redesigned, faster admin interface.
• Improved: variable font detection and single-file hosting.
• Improved: font-display control across all @font-face declarations.
• Improved: resource-hint cleanup and duplicate @font-face removal.