As of April 2026, Self-Hosted Google Fonts is a WordPress GDPR plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 40 reviews. It has been downloaded 153K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie….
4.8/540 reviews
30K+active installs
153K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
An easy way to self-host all your Google Fonts for increased Privacy or to meet a law requirement.
Theme and plugin authors are often unwilling to offer a self-hosted method and it’s quite laborious to download and upload each of the required font.
This plugin makes it all easy. It will scan all CSS on your site and automagically download and host on your server the necessary Google Web Fonts.
How it works:
- Converts all Google Font enqueues to locally hosted CSS files.
- Scans and converts any inline style tags using @imports for fonts.
- Processes all the local CSS files that weren’t properly enqueued (bad authors?).
- While doing so, downloads all the required Google Fonts to your server.
Features:
- Automatic self-hosted fonts with no effort.
- Compatible with all themes and plugi…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Small, working and for free
by donaldpunk·2 months ago
Thank you for that plugin. I use it since years on nearly every website I am creating and still it is working. But lately I experienced some warnings about deprecated code.
Install and forget
by klausmeier9·3 years ago
I used this plugin on different sites and – of course – doublecheck the functionality from time to time.
As other guys also stated here, the plugin works reliable with different versions of WP since years.
So great!
Works perfect
by kopfkinodesign·3 years ago
What can i say. Worked perfekt on various website with different wordpress websitebuilders.
Works flawlessly!
by bedengler·3 years ago
Although it’s 4 years old, it does the job pretty well. Even better than many actual plugins.
Great plugin. Installed it on a site with my own theme.
Has just a small settings window, and from the first load of the website it recognized, downloaded, cached and hosted all Google Fonts.
So it seems it’s GDPR compliant. Easy and simple!
Great plugin, thumbs up 👍
- This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by bedengler.
Still working for Beaver Builder
by Websicherheit·3 years ago
Old plugin – but for Beaver Builder still plug & play and fixes DSGVO problem in 5 seconds.
Big thumbs up!
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 22This week: 132Period total: 9K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Changelog
1.0.1
- Added an option to toggle protocol-relative URLs for generated CSS files.
- Fixed: Checkbox options not saving.
- Fixed: Italics not getting correct WOFF2 files.
- Added normalization to support regular/bold as 400/700.
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