How to Host Fonts Locally in WordPress (Classic & Block Themes!)
While using custom web fonts is a great way to make your site more unique and distinguish your branding, it can also come with certain problems — from privacy to performance. The solution: host your fonts locally on your WordPress website instead. To help you do so, in this post, we will tell you everything you need to know about this topic. Below, we discuss why it’s a good idea to host fonts locally in WordPress in the first place and then give you a rundown of code and no-code solutions to make it happen in both classic themes and WordPress block themes. Hosting Web Fonts Locally vs Remotely So, the first thing we probably have to talk about is what hosting fonts locally even means. These days, a lot of people use so-called web fonts to change the typography on their websites. Those are font files that typically load from a third-party service, the most popular of which is Google Fonts. It has a huge library of free fonts that you can use on your website by simply adding a special link to it. Then, when someone requests to see your site, they load remotely so that you can…
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