Title: Remove Google Fonts Last modified: December 18, 2016 --- # Remove Google Fonts * Resolved [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/) * (@kallym) * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/) * The Photo Gallery plugin seems to be loading (lots of) Google Fonts on the front end and GTMEtrix is giving us Minimize Request Size warnings that say: The requests for the following URLs don’t fit in a single packet. Reducing the size of these requests could reduce latency. * The function is in photo-gallery.php and is called function bwg_styles() and is creating 5 stylesheets to load Google fonts. * I tried this in my child theme function.php file but it didn’t work: * ``` function unload_fonts() { wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts_0-css'); wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts_150-css'); wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts_300-css'); wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts_450-css'); wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts_600-css'); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'unload_fonts', 100); ``` * Can you please let me know how to disable this or block this from happening? * Thank you! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [spinaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spinaker/) * (@spinaker) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8571016) * As I was looking through the code of the latest version of Photo Gallery, I found this part in the plugins/photo-gallery/photo-gallery.php file: * // Google fonts. require_once(WD_BWG_DIR . ‘/framework/WDWLibrary.php’); for( $i = 0; $i < count($google_fonts); $i = $i + 120) { $fonts = array_slice($google_fonts, $i, 120); $query = implode(“|”, str_replace(‘ ‘, ‘+’, $fonts)); $url = ‘[https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=’](https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=’);. $query . ‘&subset=greek,latin,greek- ext,vietnamese,cyrillic-ext,latin-ext,cyrillic’; wp_enqueue_style(‘bwg_googlefonts_’ . $i, $url, null, null); } } add_action(‘ wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘bwg_front_end_scripts’); * So the actual handles are as follow ‘bwg_googlefonts_0’, ‘bwg_googlefonts_120’,‘ bwg_googlefonts_240’, ‘bwg_googlefonts_360’, ‘bwg_googlefonts_480’, ‘bwg_googlefonts_600’. * [rockyreasoner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockyreasoner/) * (@rockyreasoner) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8578456) * Would also like this code removed. No reason to load EVERY Google font in the world. Let me know if you figure out a way to fix this. * Thread Starter [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/) * (@kallym) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8579595) * Thanks Spinaker, but the plugin was just updated in the last 24 hours. The version I downloaded a few days ago had 150 instead of 120. ie. $i = $i + 150. So my code shows 150. It doesn’t matter, I just changed the function to 0, 120, 240, 360, 480 and 600 and it still doesn’t work. * RockyReasoner, yes, it looks like the plugin is loading 6 different stylesheets for 150 Google Fonts, and those stylesheets are loading the fonts. * The number of fonts involved is causing GTMetrix to report that I should minimize request size and says: The requests for the following URLs don’t fit in a single packet. Reducing the size of these requests could reduce latency. * You can see from the following example that this is ridiculous and this is just for 120 – there are 6 in all. We are forced to load Google Fonts we don’t need. I checked the updated options and there is no where to disable this and the standard methods for creating child theme functions to over ride these are not working for me. I ended up commenting out code in the plugin itself, but this will be overwritten the next time there is an update, so not an acceptable solution! * Can the Photo Gallery moderator please comment on this? * example for 120: * ``` ``` * [Sona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/support-web-dorado/) * (@support-web-dorado) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8580622) * Dear users, * In January we will release an update which will fix the Google Font inclusion. Thanks. * Thread Starter [kallym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallym/) * (@kallym) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8582712) * Thank you!! 🙂 * [leaninonlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattchewbacca/) * (@mattchewbacca) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8615112) * I’m not sure if this has been updated or not, but my error is a little different. * Its causing a 400 status error on the URL query because there is no font name being loaded. * [https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=&subset=greek,latin,greek-ext,vietnamese,cyrillic-ext,latin-ext,cyrillic](https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=&subset=greek,latin,greek-ext,vietnamese,cyrillic-ext,latin-ext,cyrillic) * This might have something to do with the new Google Fonts system or something not working with the from what I understand attempt to load all of the google fonts. You also don’t need every single subset. Just latin or the ability to enable/disable. * Not to mention I can’t even find anywhere in the plugin’s settings where these Google Fonts can be set/customized/disabled/enabled/etc. * I’m also getting an XMLHttpRequest warning that you may want to address. Not a bug or anything of course I’m sure you guys are aware of this outdated method. - This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [leaninonlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattchewbacca/). * [leaninonlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattchewbacca/) * (@mattchewbacca) * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-google-fonts-2/#post-8615407) * BTW Technically the style that gets enqueued by the plugin is ‘bwg_googlefonts’ on line 2253 in photo-gallery.php during the global inline style script, so adding wp_dequeue_style(‘bwg_googlefonts’); instead would be the quickest easiest route to removing the google fonts from loading on all of your pages. * ``` function unload_fonts() { wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts'); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'unload_fonts', 100); ``` * And if you want to get rid of the rest of the plugin’s bloat I recommend de-queuing the scripts and styles that in my case are not needed either… * ``` function unload_dwgbloat() { wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_googlefonts'); wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_mCustomScrollbar'); wp_dequeue_style( 'bwg_sumoselect'); wp_dequeue_script( 'bwg_sumoselect'); wp_dequeue_script( 'bwg_mCustomScrollbar'); } add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'unload_dwgbloat', 100); ``` * This worked for me… - This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [leaninonlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattchewbacca/). - This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [leaninonlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattchewbacca/). - This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by [leaninonlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattchewbacca/). 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