WordPress Legacy Default Themes Updated to Bundle Google Fonts Locally
The WordPress core team has recently updated the legacy default themes – Twenty Fifteen, Twenty Sixteen, and Twenty Seventeen – to bundle Google fonts locally. This update is part of an effort to improve performance and reduce reliance on external resources.
Google Fonts are a popular choice for web designers because they offer a wide selection of typefaces that can be used in websites without any additional licensing fees or restrictions. However, using them requires loading files from an external source which can slow down page load times and increase latency. To address this issue, the WordPress core team decided to bundle the necessary font files with each theme so that they could be loaded locally instead of from an external server.
This change will have several benefits for users who choose one of these themes as their website’s design template: improved performance due to faster page loads; reduced latency since all requests are now being served from within the same domain; increased privacy since no data is being sent outside your site; and better compatibility with caching plugins such as WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache which may not work properly when loading content from third-party sources. Additionally, it eliminates potential issues caused by changes in Google’s API or other external services that could cause unexpected behavior on your site if you rely heavily on them for styling purposes.
In order to implement this change, each theme was updated with new functions that allow it to detect whether a user has enabled local font loading in their settings panel (under “Appearance > Customize > Typography”). If so, then the necessary font files will be included automatically when generating HTML output for pages associated with those themes. This ensures maximum compatibility across different browsers while still providing users with access to all available fonts provided by Google Fonts service without having any impact on performance or security concerns related to relying on third-party servers for content delivery purposes.
The WordPress core team also took steps towards improving accessibility by ensuring that all bundled fonts meet WCAG 2 AA standards as well as making sure they are optimized for both desktop and mobile devices alike so everyone can enjoy a consistent experience regardless of device type or screen size used when viewing sites powered by these themes.
Overall, this update should provide significant improvements in terms of both performance and usability while reducing reliance on third-party services at the same time – something many developers have been asking about over recent years but had yet seen no action taken until now! It’s great news indeed!
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