Cómo añadir Google Web Fonts en temas de WordPress de la manera “correcta

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1. Armando

   I noticed that this video/instructions are dated 2015 and the screenshots, etc. are different. When I tried to embed the Google Fonts code in my header.php file as shown, it threw an error. So I’m thinking maybe this tutorial needs to be updated? Not sure, but… Thanks.

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     Thank you for your feedback, we’ll be sure to take a look into updating this article when able.

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2. Wout

   Thanks for the article! Please replace http: in fonts.googleapis.com/css… with https: in the function to enqueue Google Fonts to enable an encrypted link to googleapis.com…

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     Thanks for pointing this out, we will be sure to update the links as soon as we are able

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3. Sofia

   I’m pretty sure it’s 2017 why we even have to learn all this :”((

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4. charles

   Is this still the right way to do it?

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5. Renee

   I got the font to show up but can’t figure out how to get it bold.
   Here’s an example of what i did in the css

   font-family:”Open Sans”, sans-serif;
   font-weight:bold;

   in the link i added to my header.php i added this:

   i tried subbing 700 for bold but no luck…
   any ideas?

   thanks in advance

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   • Isaac Anderson

     Make sure you check your desired font-weights on Google fonts after selecting them in the “customize” tab.

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6. Louis

   Works perfect! Thx.

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7. josh

   Huh? Wtf does any of this mean? How do I make it so that I can just add a google font in my post or page?

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8. Shubham Kumar

   What do you think about importing Google web Fonts using JavaScript asynchronously as mentioned over here :

   Thanks
   Shubham

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9. Jordan

   One quick question – I looked up the code reference for wp_enqueue_style(). Its first argument is a string that denotes the name of the stylesheet. In your example, you use ‘wpb-google-fonts’ for the first argument. How can I tell what to put here for my site?

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10. pete rome

    where do I paste stuff in the header exactly? always see that but people never explain exactly where it is.

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11. Carla DeLauder

    What does ‘false’ do in this function? Other enqueued functions don’t include it.

    Thank you.

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    • Kev

      that’s the argument for header or footer. Since best practice is to put [almost] all scripts in the header it defaults to ‘true’ => footer, whereas ‘false’ would mean the NOT in the footer, but in the header instead.

      Unfortunately, font scripts stop everything else from loading, so putting them in the header sucks a litlte bit, which is why this article talks about making sure you’re only including the fonts you’ll actually use. On the flip side, putting them in the footer can cause default fonts like arial to load momentarily on your screen during painting until the webfont gets loaded. It’s a horrible caveat, but it is what it is.

      A practice I’m working into my workflow is to conditionally load fonts based on their usage in the site. For example, maybe “bold” is only used in h2’s and h3’s in blog post templates (single.php), then I’ll write a conditional enqueue for the bold script to only be enqueued when on single.php template.

      Hope that helps.

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      • Kev

        Also, to note.

        By “bold” above, I meant a specific bold version of a font family. <= just a head's up.

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12. Kenneth John Odle

    As of WordPress 3.3, wp_print_styles is deprecated.

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    • Bram

      Yeah, you should update this article.

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      • WPBeginner Support

        Updated.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      We have updated the article, it now shows how to add Google fonts using the proper wp_enqueue_style function and wp_enqueue_scripts action hook.

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      • isak

        How do you enque two font families via functions.php?

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13. April

    I’m using the Punch Fonts plugin to add google fonts but I am not sure how to just get only heading 1 for the desired font. I don’t need this font for headings 2-6 so I only want to use the google font for heading one. How do I write that in the parameter?

    Currently I’m using: Oleo+Script+Swash+Caps:400

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14. Melissa

    Well, if anyone is stuck, there is also this plugin called Easy Google Fonts. Very helpful.

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15. Melissa

    Hello,

    I have tried all three methods but neither of them took effect completely. It seems that it only applies to certain elements and not to others that I specified with that font in the style sheet

    When I use the Element Inspector for the element where my Google Font is not applied, this is what I see:
    #site-title {
    font-family: \’Questrial\’, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

    What do these mean \\ around my font? I mean, it looks like it is indicating an error but I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong? What could it be? Some code overriding mine, with higher priority? but where? how? Arghhhh it’s driving me nuts

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16. Ali Sajjad

    Dear Editorial, i want to add all google web fonts in this site, and then want to use in my means,

    but i dont want to use too many links in header file. any other way?

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      Only add the fonts that you want to use.

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17. Anurag

    So, I have got a blog ( http://www.goingtechy.com/ ). The problem I am having is that I want to optimize css delivery of the Google font that my site uses already. So, the site already have Google fonts. How can I optimize it?

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18. Samantha

    Thank you so much for this post! For someone who has no formal html/css training, I was impressed with the simplicity of this post.

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19. Tanisha

    So easy and go it to work perfectly. Thanks for this.

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20. Greg

    Hi there,

    Using Genesis and the Parallax Pro theme…
    But a newb to things like php etc

    I added this code to the fuctions.php file as you insctructed:
    add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘wpb_add_google_fonts’, 5);

    function wpb_add_google_fonts() {
    echo ”;
    }

    The headers that use the font above remain unchanged.

    Questions:
    1. Am I right in assuming that the code above is the only thing that I add?
    2. Where exactly should the code be added – at the beginning or end of fuctions.php?
    2. Is there anything missing from the code?
    3. Should I be adding something to the style.css file?

    Appreciate your help
    Regards
    Greg

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Greg, seems alright to us. We think WordPress probably omitted the part from your code where you echoed font link. Yes you will need to use CSS to set style rules for selectors where you want to use your Google font.

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21. Tony Porto

    None of the above is good enough, we all know “wp_enqueue_style( ‘google-font’)” is the “technically correct way to call a script, but in this case your <header will end up like this;

    FONT 1:
    FONT 2:
    FONT 3:
    FONT 4:

    No Good, it needs to be like this:
    

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22. Akmal

    Where should i paste the above code? I could not find the last line of code anywhere in my header.php file? Can you please tell me step-wise?
    Thanks.

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      In your header.php file you will find </head> you can paste this code any where before this tag.

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23. Sarah

    Tried re-typing the following, and still nothing is changing;

    /* Import Fonts
    ———————————————————— */

    add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘wpb_add_google_fonts’, 5);

    function wpb_add_google_fonts () {
    echo ‘’;
    }

    /* Defaults

    It worked the first time. I’m so confused!
    Thanks for your help.

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24. Sarah

    Hi,

    I was so proud of myself for copying the code and changing the font which, I found too large for my site. When I tried to change it to something else, I must have mixed something up, and only one font style continues to show, even when I play about with the codes. Feeling like a dunce now – I don’t talk tech. Can anyone help me? I’ve done it with and without the numbers in case they’re not actually part of it. Thanks. This is the latest that I entered…..

    /* Import Fonts
    ———————————————————— */

    1 add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘wpb_add_google_fonts’, 5);
    2
    3 function wpb_add_google_fonts() {
    4 echo ”;
    5 }

    /* Defaults
    ———————————————————— */

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    • WPBeginner Support

      we hope you did not enter the numbers with the code Or did you?

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      • Sarah

        No numbers, but I am missing something this time around. This is exactly what I have in my table;

        add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘wpb_add_google_fonts’, 5);

        function wpb_add_google_fonts() {
        echo ”;
        }

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      • Sarah

        It seems the code worked…..on one computer. It hasn’t taken on two others that I use.
        Can you please suggest why that might be the case?

        Thanks so much

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25. Karissa Skirmont

    How can you use multiple Google Fonts in the functions.php ?

    I had this:

    //* Enqueue Google fonts
    add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'executive_google_fonts' );
    function executive_google_fonts() {
    	wp_enqueue_style( 'google-font', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700', array(), CHILD_THEME_VERSION );
    	wp_enqueue_style( 'google-font', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dancing+Script:400italic,700italic,400,700', array(), CHILD_THEME_VERSION );
    }
    
    

    But the Dancing Script wasn’t showing up font on my second computer or iPhone or tablet.
    I removed the Open Sans and it started working.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      @Karissa, the first argument in wp_enqueue_style function is the handle for the style script you are loading. Try this code instead:

      //* Enqueue Google fonts
      add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'executive_google_fonts' );
      function executive_google_fonts() {
      	wp_enqueue_style( 'google-font', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700', array(), 20131111 );
      	wp_enqueue_style( 'google-font-2', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dancing+Script:400italic,700italic,400,700', array(), 20131111 );
      }
      

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      • Karissa Skirmont

        Nevermind, I figured out that I needed to use a link like this:

        ‘//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Euphoria+Script|Rouge+Script|Montez|Federo|Great+Vibes|Clicker+Script|Dancing+Script:400,700|Satisfy|Ruthie|Rochester|Open+Sans|Open+Sans+Condensed:300’

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      • Karissa Skirmont

        Ahh I see, I replied above before refreshing the page and seeing your reply.

        By using the link Google gives when you have multiple fonts selected, it produces it like that and you can more easily try out different fonts live on site.

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26. Chaitanya

    Thank you so much!! Whenever I need any WordPress help, I come directly to wpbeginner as I know I would find a best solution here. You guys don’t know how much you have helped beginners like me, Appreciate you support
    Long Live WPBeginner…

    Cheers,
    Chaitanya

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27. Jenny

    Meh, I like using the import. Less work for me ‘cause I’m lazy~

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    • pete rome

      yeah way too much work on each method here and there shouldn’t be a need to add anything to the style sheet find a plugin

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28. Jimmy Reynolds

    A you mean the nerd way

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29. mzilverberg

    Something I missed here were the conditional comments to make Google’s webfonts work in IE8 and below if you request more than one font weight. For example:

    <link href=”http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:400,700″ rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />

    That’s why I created a function for loading fonts: https://github.com/mzilverberg/LoadGoogleWebfonts

    My script also places the appropriate fallback urls within a conditional comment.
    With a few lines of code you could also make this work in functions.php in your Wordpress theme.

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30. Greg

    What about adding Google Fonts to the admin side?

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      Why would you want to add Google Fonts to the admin side?

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      • Bruce Smith

        To maintain WYSIWYG in the admin content editor. So that I see the same font face in the admin editor as on my web site.

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        • Dan Merhar

          I was actually wondering how to do the same thing (and this is the first result that popped up on Google).

          I know plug-ins exist to add Google Webfonts functionality to the WYSIWYG editor, but they bog it down like crazy. I’m going to look into it further and see if there’s an easy way to add a font or two.

31. Marleen

    Thanx a lot for sharing, I’m really happy with this. I’m a Genesis user and started using @import because it’s alraedy being done in the stylesheet. Feel much better about this solution.
    Happy 2013!

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32. jeff

    In your code do I replace “YOUR THEME STYLESHEET” with something??
    mine is STYLE.CSS, or does it need to be a URL ??
    thanks,
    Jeff

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    • Editorial Staff

      Yes, you need to insert your theme’s style.css path there.

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33. Charles

    This is what I use…..

    Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

    /*----------------------------------*/
    /* Load CSS Files
    /*----------------------------------*/	
    	if(!function_exists('load_theme_styles'))
    	{
    		function load_theme_styles()
    		{		
    			if (!is_admin()) {
    				
    				$cssURL = get_template_directory_uri().'/css/';
    				$fontURL = 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora|Oswald';
    				
    				// Registering New Styles	
    				wp_register_style('googleFont', $fontURL);					
    				wp_register_style('style', $cssURL.'/style.css', 'googleFont', '1.0', 'screen');
    				wp_register_style('print', $cssURL.'/print.css', 'googleFont', '1.0', 'print');
    				
    				// Enqueing Styles
    				wp_enqueue_style('googleFont');	
    				wp_enqueue_style('style');
    				wp_enqueue_style('print');			
    				
    			}
    		}
    	}
    	add_action('wp_enqueue_style', 'load_theme_styles');
    

    What do you think about this?

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    • Chris Reynolds

      This is the CORRECT way to add Google fonts. Always use wp_register_style/wp_enqueue_style

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34. David

    Better still add a conditional comment to serve the fonts separately for IE 7 and 8:

    From here:
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/11/avoiding-faux-weights-styles-google-web-fonts/

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35. Bryan Nickson

    Nice tuts. I had wanted something like this..Kudos!!

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36. Peter

    What about the JS option, is that a faster option Or the one is the better?. Thanks

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    • Editorial Staff

      The method in this one is by far the most recommended one.

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      • QLStudio

        In your answer you don’t enqueue the css – is that really the best way to add it?

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37. Chris

    Great article! I think it would be pretty cool if wordpress, by default, had Google Fonts included into it, but this seems easy enough. Thanks for explaining!

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    • Editorial Staff

      Google Fonts are great, but not everyone uses it (considering the amount of folks who use WordPress). WordPress has a 95% rule. If the feature would not satisfy 95% of the audience, then it is usually falls in the plugins category. However, sometimes exceptions are made. We can assure you that the Core WP team, will not make this into an exception though

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38. Aaron Crow

    You rock man! Just what I was looking for! Thanks for putting up this post… I searched forever trying to find something about adding this to my theme. Glad I stumbled across your page.

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39. Anderson Curry

    Great post and even if their is a plug-in to do this, it’s always better to learn the non – plugin way also.

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40. Brad

    So obviously you dont accept using the several Google font plugins. I am going to have to revisit my css files in that case.

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41. sadhu

    i dont understand the second part which is adding font to the genesis add action thing.. is that another method to add in google web font?

    and i know we dont have to incld all styles of the font, but the recommended method, which is http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora|Oswald

    just for instance, what if i only want bold style for lora and light style for oswald, then how to combine the font styles?

    thanks

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    • Editorial Staff

      The second part is for Genesis Users ONLY. If you are not using the Genesis Theme Framework, then you don’t need that part. To combine styles like you want, here is how you do it:

      http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:300|Lora:700

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      • Anton

        What should I do if I want to use @font-face in Genesis Framework like you showed here with the Google Webfonts, are there any solution for that.
        I’ve been searching all day since my fonts loads incredibly slow!
        Cheers

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42. Gautam Doddamani

    great tutorial…i actually use the wp google fonts plugin…would you recommend that plugin or doing the manual way as described above..which is efficient performance wise?

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    • Editorial Staff

      Haven’t tried that plugin. But we almost try to avoid plugins of that sort because it can be done easier with theme files.

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      • Gautam Doddamani

        sweet…thanks will edit my theme instead of using a plugin

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        • Pippin

          Avoiding the google fonts plugin because it is a plugin is not a good reason at all. Using the plugin actually provides you with much more flexibility than including it in your theme, especially if you ever choose to change themes.

        • Editorial Staff

          As far as I’m concerned, fonts in most cases are considered stylistic elements thus theme based, and they usually change when you switch to a different theme.

43. Siddanth Adiga

    Superb post I was looking for this only i was trying my hands with css and fontface .I ll try this one too thanks

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44. Konstantin Kovshenin

    The “Right” way would be to use the wp_enqueue_style function Here’s some more thoughts: http://kovshenin.com/2012/on-wordpress-theme-frameworks/

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    • Editorial Staff

      Konstantin, I totally agree with you. wp_enqueue_style function should always be used. That is what I tried doing first as suggested by Nathan Rice, in StudioPress’s article about Google Fonts. Except Google clearly states, that the font styles should be loaded before anything else. Using wp_enqueue_style and then printing them using wp_print_styles, this was printing the item after the main stylesheet was already loaded. That was the reason why I had to hook into genesis_meta() hook. Anyways, totally agree with your thoughts on your article.

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      • Japh

        I’m a little late to this, but I wanted to mention that you could still use wp_enqueue_style, just set the priority higher so that they are loaded first

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    • Bob R

      Great tutorial. One observation though: first image in the article was meant to show the @import tab, wasn’t it?

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      • Editorial Staff

        No it wasn’t suppose to show that.

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