Title: Wonderful Selfhosted Fonts Author: wonderfulplugins Published: September 16, 2026 Last modified: September 16, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3698959) # Wonderful Selfhosted Fonts By [wonderfulplugins](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wonderfulplugins/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/) ## Description #### Why self-host fonts at all? Every web font a page pulls from someone else’s server tells that server who is visiting. Before a single letter appears, the browser has to send the visitor’s IP address, the referring page and the user agent to that provider. Nothing is cached away, nothing is anonymous — it happens on every page view, for every visitor. In the EU that is a data transfer, and it needs a legal basis. A German court decided in January 2022 (LG München I, 3 O 17493/20) that embedding Google Fonts without consent violates the GDPR, and awarded damages to the plaintiff; a wave of warning letters followed. The same reasoning applies to Font Awesome, to icon fonts pulled from a CDN, and to any other font host. Serving the fonts from your own domain removes the problem at its source: no third party is contacted, so there is nothing to consent to and nothing to declare. Your pages also stop depending on someone else’s uptime. This plugin removes those requests. Whether your site is compliant overall is a legal question, and no plugin can answer that for you. #### Why another font plugin? Web fonts arrive on a WordPress site in more than one way. A theme may enqueue a stylesheet, a page builder may write the font CSS straight into the page, and a stylesheet from a CDN may pull in font files of its own. Tools that only filter enqueued stylesheets see the first case and miss the rest — which is why fonts often still load from a third party after a font localiser reports success. This plugin looks in all three places, lists what it finds, and tells you where each request came from. Nothing is downloaded until you say so. #### What it does * **Lists every third-party font** the site loads, with the family name, the provider and the page it was first seen on. * **Names the source.** Each entry shows the plugin or theme that requested it and the stylesheet handle behind it, so you can go and fix the cause rather than only the symptom. * **Stores fonts locally on request.** One setting, “Store pending fonts locally”: tick it and everything the table lists as waiting is mirrored — stylesheets together with the font files they reference. * **Survives a move.** Mirrored files reference each other by name, not by address, so copying the site from staging to the live domain — or from an IP to a host name — leaves the fonts working. * **Works with page builders.** Font CSS written directly into the page is picked up too, not just properly enqueued stylesheets. Divi is supported through its own filter as well. * **Removes the leftovers.** Preconnect and DNS-prefetch hints for hosts you no longer load from are dropped, because a hint still opens a connection. * **Respects font licences.** Providers whose terms forbid self-hosting — Adobe Fonts, Monotype and the like — are listed with an explanation and never downloaded. #### What it deliberately does not do * **reCAPTCHA cannot be fixed this way.** The widget runs inside an iframe served by Google. What happens in there is out of reach for any WordPress plugin. If that matters for you, replace the captcha rather than trying to localise it. * **Fonts injected by JavaScript at runtime** are not visible to server-side detection. * **Icons are not fonts.** Recent Font Awesome versions ship SVG plus JavaScript; this plugin mirrors font files, not icon sprites. ### External services This plugin exists to _end_ the connections your site makes to third-party font hosts. It never loads a script, stylesheet, image or font from a remote server into your pages, and it contacts no service of ours: there is no account, no API key, no registration and no telemetry. The one thing it does over the network is the localisation itself, and it is the service this plugin provides: it downloads a copy of the font stylesheets and font files your site is **already** loading from a third party, stores them under `wp- content/uploads/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/`, and serves them from your own domain from then on. A request happens only after you tick “Store pending fonts locally” in the settings and save, or on the hourly schedule if you switch that on yourself. Nothing is downloaded while a page is rendered. Which hosts are contacted therefore depends entirely on what your own site loads, and on nothing this plugin decides. The names below are the detection list — the hosts the plugin recognises as font providers so that it can offer to take their files off your pages. They are not assets it loads: * Google Fonts — fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, themes.googleusercontent. com — privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy , terms: https://policies. google.com/terms * Bunny Fonts — fonts.bunny.net — privacy policy: https://bunny.net/privacy , terms: https://bunny.net/tos * Font Awesome — use.fontawesome.com, kit.fontawesome.com, ka-p.fontawesome.com, kit-free.fontawesome.com — privacy policy: https://fontawesome.com/privacy , terms: https://fontawesome.com/license * jsDelivr — cdn.jsdelivr.net — privacy policy: https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/ privacy-policy , terms: https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms * BootstrapCDN — maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com, stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com — operated by jsDelivr, privacy policy: https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms/privacy-policy , terms: https://www.jsdelivr.com/terms * cdnjs — cdnjs.cloudflare.com — privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/, terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ * unpkg — unpkg.com — served on Cloudflare, privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare. com/privacypolicy/ , project page: https://unpkg.com/ Providers whose licence forbids self-hosting are recognised as well, so that they can be reported to you with an explanation. They are listed and never downloaded from: Adobe Fonts (use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net), Monotype (fast.fonts.net) and Hoefler & Co. (cloud.typography.com). Any other font host can be added by name in the settings, one per line; those are treated exactly the same way and are contacted only by the same explicit action. Only the URL of the font resource is requested — no data about your site or its visitors is transmitted. The “Check front page now” button requests a page of your own site, nothing else. ## Screenshots [⌊Every web font the site loads from a third-party host, with the plugin or theme that asked for it — before anything is stored locally.⌉⌊Every web font the site loads from a third-party host, with the plugin or theme that asked for it — before anything is stored locally.⌉[ Every web font the site loads from a third-party host, with the plugin or theme that asked for it — before anything is stored locally. [⌊After storing them locally: each stylesheet lists the font files it pulled in, and everything is served from the site's own domain.⌉⌊After storing them locally: each stylesheet lists the font files it pulled in, and everything is served from the site's own domain.⌉[ After storing them locally: each stylesheet lists the font files it pulled in, and everything is served from the site’s own domain. ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. 2. Go to Settings Selfhosted Fonts. 3. Open your site once, or use “Check front page now”. 4. Review the list, then tick “Store pending fonts locally” under Settings and save. ## FAQ ### Which of my plugins is actually loading a font from Google? That is the first column of the table. The plugin reads the stylesheet handle WordPress prints with every asset, and resolves it to the plugin or theme behind it — so you can fix the cause instead of just the symptom, or decide the feature is not worth the request at all. ### Does this send anything anywhere on its own? No. Detection is entirely local. Files are downloaded only once you tick “Store pending fonts locally” and save, or on the hourly schedule if you switch that on yourself. ### My font localiser said everything was fine, yet fonts still load from Google. That is the usual case with page builders. They fetch and inline the font CSS themselves, so it never passes through the stylesheet filter other plugins hook into. This plugin also searches the finished page output, which is where that CSS ends up. It reads that output through the template output buffer WordPress 6.9 provides for the purpose, which is why that version is the minimum. ### I moved the site to another domain. Do I have to mirror everything again? No. The stored files point at each other by file name, and the public address is rebuilt on every request, so a move is invisible to them. Copies made by earlier versions did contain the old address; opening the settings screen once after the move repairs them and says so. ### Where are the files stored? In `wp-content/uploads/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts/`, protected against PHP execution. Deleting the plugin removes the folder again. ### Can I add my own font host? Yes, one host name per line in the settings. Only stylesheets and font files are taken from additional hosts. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Wonderful Selfhosted Fonts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ wonderfulplugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wonderfulplugins/) [Translate “Wonderful Selfhosted Fonts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wonderful-selfhosted-fonts) ### Interested in development? 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