Description
OMGF can be downloaded for free without any paid subscription from the official WordPress repository.
Trusted by 300,000+ WordPress sites. The original Google Fonts self-hosting plugin.
OMGF removes the connection between your site and Google’s font servers, eliminating the DNS lookups and render-blocking requests that slow down LCP and TTFB — while making your site GDPR/DSGVO-compliant in the process. German courts have ruled that loading Google Fonts directly violates GDPR, since visitor IPs get logged by Google. OMGF closes that gap entirely: nothing leaves your server.
Install it and it works immediately. No setup required, though there’s plenty to fine-tune if you want to.
Detection, Out of the Box
OMGF scans your site for Google Fonts, Bunny Fonts (fonts.bunny.net), and Jetpack CDN (fonts-api.wp.com) and downloads them to your own server automatically. It even automatically detects and optimizes Google Fonts loaded by Elementor.
Free Features
Resource hints cleanup — Strips leftover preconnect, dns-prefetch, and preload hints pointing at fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com — dead weight once your fonts are self-hosted.
font-display control — Force font-display: swap (or block, fallback, optional, auto) on your Google Fonts, fixing “Ensure text remains visible during webfont load” in Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights.
Performance Checker — Keeps an eye on your setup and flags what’s costing you points: unused subsets, unused weights, missing preloads above the fold, and layout shift from fonts loading late.
Google Fonts checker — Pings you when a theme or plugin update introduces new Google Fonts that haven’t been processed yet.
Manual control — Globally unload font families or weights you don’t need. Preload the ones that matter above the fold.
Integrates with your stack — OMGF works alongside the optimization plugins and page builders you’re already running, including Autoptimize, FlyingPress, Kinsta, LiteSpeed Cache, SiteGround Speed Optimizer, W3 Total Cache, WP Fastest Cache, WP-Optimize, WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Oxygen, and Visual Composer.
OMGF Pro
Where the free version covers the fundamentals, Pro removes the manual work entirely.
Smart Optimize — Measures, on real visitor pageviews, exactly which fonts, subsets, and weights get used above the fold. Preloads what matters, strips what doesn’t. No configuration, no guessing — just measured results.
Magic Fallbacks — Generates system font fallbacks mathematically tuned to match each Google Font’s real metrics (size-adjust, ascent-override), so text doesn’t jump around while fonts load. Zero CLS, calculated automatically per font.
Deeper detection — Pro reaches fonts the free version and competitors don’t touch:
– Inline <style> blocks with @font-face or @import
– Local and externally hosted stylesheets using @import
– Web Font Loader (webfont.js)
– Async, JS-injected Google Fonts loaded at runtime
– WordPress’s Font Manager (or Font Library, since WP 7.0)
– Variable Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com/css2)
– Material Icons
Global font-display — Extends font-display control to every font on your site, not just Google Fonts.
Everything else:
– Automatic Multisite and WPML support
– Serve fonts and stylesheets from your own CDN or custom path
– Replace font families with system fonts entirely
– Whitelabel stylesheets — strip OMGF branding and comments for smaller file sizes
– Developer Mode for safely migrating between dev, staging, and production
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/host-webfonts-localdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Use the Settings -> Optimize Google Fonts screen to configure the plugin
For a more comprehensive guide on configuring OMGF, check out the user manual
FAQ
For the FAQ, click here.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“OMGF | GDPR/DSGVO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy.” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
6.3.8 | June 25th, 2026
- XSS: Hardened security by adding capability and nonce checks to Save & Optimize action.
6.3.7 | June 16th, 2026
- Added: omgf_frontend_process_preloads action, which is used by OMGF Pro for coming up Smart Optimize improvements.
6.3.6 | June 4th, 2026
- Tested with WP 7.0.
6.3.5 | May 13th, 2026
- Fixed: Google Fonts and Performance Checker didn’t run when Disable Admin Bar Menu was enabled.
6.3.4 | April 13th, 2026
- Code improvements to facilitate UX in OMGF Pro.
6.3.3 | April 10th, 2026
- Improved: Performance Checker now also checks Cumulate Layout Shifting (CLS) caused by fonts.
- Some minor UI fixes.
6.3.2 | March 31st, 2026
- Fixed: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function is_plugin_active(), which was introduced in 6.3.1.
6.3.1
- Fixed: flushing the cache after running Save & Optimize didn’t work.
- Added: compatibility with the official Cloudflare plugin.
6.3.0 | March 30th, 2026
- Improved: clarified the dialog shown in the Performance Checker.
- Improved: OMGF now flushes the CSS cache of the most popular caching plugins after running Save & Optimize:
- Autoptimize
- FlyingPress
- Kinsta Cache
- LiteSpeed Cache
- SiteGround Optimizer
- W3 Total Cache
- WP Fastest Cache
- WP-Optimize
- WP Rocket
- WP Super Cache
- Improved: OMGF now flushes its own (third party) cache when editing options and/or pages/posts in the following themes/page builders:
- Avada
- Beaver Builder
- Bricks Builder
- Divi
- Elementor
- Oxygen
- Improved: When you switch themes, update permalinks or update a plugin, OMGF will now also flush third party stylesheets it’s cached.
6.2.0 | March 23rd, 2026
- Extended the Google Fonts checker with a Performance Checker, which checks how fonts are performing on your site in 3 areas:
- Unused Subsets,
- Unused Font styles/weights,
- Missing Preloads.
If it finds any issues, it’ll suggest solutions.
6.1.4
- Improved: options are now retrieved much more efficiently.
- Improved: minor security fixes.
- Deprecated: omgf_frontend_preloaded_fonts and omgf_frontend_optimized_fonts are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
They are replaced by omgf_filter_preloaded_fonts and omgf_filter_optimized_fonts.
6.1.3
- Coincidentally found a bug that has been haunting me for years, that’s why I’m releasing this quick patch release.
- Fixed: in some scenarios, unloaded_stylesheets would be stored as an array with one empty element in the database.
6.1.2 | February 20th, 2026
- Fixed: if the expected MIME type of the downloaded file didn’t match, a class OMGF\OMGF exception would be thrown.
- Dev: Updated CI tools.
6.1.1 | January 26th, 2026
- Fixed: font-weights would sometimes break when Smart Slider 3 or Groovy Menu was enabled.
6.1.0 | January 21st, 2026
- Improved: OMGF now runs on wp-login.php.
6.0.11 | December 1st, 2025
- Tested with WP 6.9
- Improved: Renamed Divi/Elementor compatibility to just Divi compatibility, since Elementor compatibility is now always on.
- Added: Colibri WP theme to list of themes that require additional configuration.
- Fixed: an Uncaught TypeError would appear in the admin screen on some instances.
6.0.10 | October 10th, 2025
- Improved: subset and font-family detection to avoid false positives.
- Fixed: If no subset could be found, font filenames would be erroneously prepended with a dash.
6.0.9 | October 9th, 2025
- Improved: Google Fonts Checker now shows 5 results (pages) per found fonts request.
- Improved: clarified error message shown by Google Fonts Checker.
- Improved: Improved code related to Downloading and Optimization process to be more restrictive.
6.0.8 | October 1st, 2025
- Fixed: compatibility fix for Smart Slider 3, didn’t run on Smart Slider 3 Pro.
- Fixed: syntax error in “Update available” message, would break JS execution on Plugins page.
- Improved: use new $params variable in filter, to prevent double POST cleanup.
6.0.7 | August 26th, 2025
- Fixed: removed trailing commas on some function calls to prevent errors in PHP 7.2 and lower.
- Minimum required PHP version is now 7.3, because it’ll make my life easier and PHP 7.2 has been EOL for ages.
6.0.6 | July 30th, 2025
- Improved: PHP 8.3 compatibility.
- Fixed: Unloads (Don’t Load) now work properly on Elementor stylesheets.
- Improved: logic to process unloaded font styles in stylesheets is more streamlined now.
- Fixed: a fatal error which occurred if nothing was selected in the Advanced Settings > Used Subsets option.
6.0.5 | July 7th, 2025
- Fixed: class WPTT not found error. Oops!
6.0.4 | July 4th, 2025
- Added: compatibility for themes/plugins using the WPTT webfont loader.
- Improved: Optimize Local Fonts section is now full width, like the Dashboard.
- Improved: Moved Test Mode into the Dashboard section.
6.0.3 | June 24th, 2025
- Added: Smart Preload (Pro) promotional option.
- Added: Compatibility for the upcoming Elementor v3.30 release.
- Improved: Compatibility fixes are now moved into one place, and are only loaded on the condition of the respective plugin actually being activated.
- Improved: All settings related to fonts optimization are now grouped in the Optimize Local Fonts section under the Local Fonts tab.
- Several code improvements.
6.0.2 | June 12th, 2025
- Improved: the Google Fonts checker now runs through its own API endpoint, instead of WP’s AJAX actions.
- Improved: the Disable Admin Bar Menu option now also disables the Google Fonts checker.
- Added: Real Cookie Banner, Borlabs Cookie Banner, and Trustmary to the list of plugins which require additional configuration.
- Minor refactors for cleaner code and to fix minor security flaws.
6.0.1 | May 27th, 2025
- Fixed: Frontend Assets would still load, even when Disable Top Admin Bar Menu option was enabled.
- Fixed: some themes (like Enfold) are incompatible with wp-util. Refactored wp-util dependencies to vanilla JS in Google Fonts checker to no longer rely on it.
- Improved: really long URLs in the Dashboard are now wrapped.
- Fixed: when OMGF Pro isn’t installed, Fallback Font Stack shouldn’t be enabled.
6.0.0 – **2000 IQ edition** | May 26th, 2025
- Added: Google Fonts checker, which will notify you when a plugin or theme has added Google Fonts OMGF can’t process (and provide a solution!)
- Improved: the menu in the Top Admin Bar now has a stoplight, which notifies you if there are any Google Fonts and/or configurational issues. It’ll show green if all is well.
- Improved: the Task Manager is superseded by a brand-new Dashboard, which will give you a quick overview of:
- If OMGF was able to process all Google Fonts on your site, and if not; show you where they were found with possible solutions.
- If there were any configurational issues (e.g., known conflicts with other plugins, etc.).
- Cache status,
- Simple cache management tasks: Empty and Refresh.
- Improved: The settings screen got a fresh new coat of paint, fully aligned with Daan.dev’s new look.
- Improved: Settings were moved around to move logical places:
- The Detection Settings tab has been removed,
- The Local Fonts tab is now fully dedicated to informing you about your Local Google Fonts configuration.
- All options, that’re not directly related to Locally Hosting Google Fonts but are directed more at optimization, are now moved to the Advanced Settings tab.
- Improved: Optimize for (D)TAP is now renamed to the more appropriate Developer Mode.
- Improved: Mailerlite users are now made aware of the fact that it loads iframes loading Google Fonts.
- Improved: if Disable Admin Bar Menu (prev. Disable Quick Access Menu) is enabled, the Admin Bar Menu will still show if there are issues to notify the administrators.
- Removed a bunch of old upgrade/update notifications.
- Tons of bug fixes and code and security improvements.
5.9.3 | May 16th, 2025 – THE LAST PATCH RELEASE BEFORE **OMGF V6!**
- Tested with WP 6.8
- Added: compatibility with OptimizePress 3 theme
- Fixed: Variable font weights weren’t processed properly during optimization.
- Fixed: Update notices weren’t displayed properly.
- Various small bugfixes.
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5.0.0 – **The Better, Bigger, Faster, Stronger, Cooler, Awesome-er Edition** | March 4th, 2022
- Added: Parse entire HTML document for Google Fonts stylesheets (instead of just wp_head())
- Added: Merged both Optimization Modes option into one automatically running option:
– A first scan is done upon Save & Optimize,
– A quick check is done on pageload, to see if other Google Fonts are found than the ones already found, and if so, they’re downloaded and replaced on-the-fly. - Enhanced: The Download API is replaced for an easier, leaner, and faster alternative and no longer uses the WordPress API.
– If the first request fails, a mirror is used to retry the request, before throwing an error.
– Fixes rest_no_route errors in some configurations. - Enhanced: The Task Manager now offers a quick overview of downloaded stylesheets and their status, along with simple management tasks, e.g. cache flush, configure stylesheet, and/or remove.
– When cache is marked as stale, it’s now possible to refresh the cache and maintain your stylesheet configuration. - Added: Resource hints enqueued in wp_resource_hints() are now properly removed.
- Fixed: Smart Slider 3 compatibility.
- Several bugfixes, UX improvements, and code optimizations.
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4.0.0 | September 30th, 2020
- OMGF now runs fully automatic to replace/remove Google Fonts from your pages using OMGF’s new Download API. No initial configuration required!
- This means that if you use different fonts on different pages, all of them will be cached and served locally.
- HUGE performance increase in OMGF’s automatic replacing/removing methods.
- Major overhaul of Settings Page:
- Removed Extensions Tab
- Some settings were moved to a new tab: Basic Settings.
- Improved Welcome and Documentation tab.
- Clarified option descriptions.
- Removed ‘Generate Stylesheet’ tab, which’ll be released in a separate add-on plugin soon.
- Removed ‘Use Web Font Loader?’ option, because it causes Cumulative Layout Shift and will not work with OMGF’s new Auto Replace feature.
- Removed ‘Remove Version Parameter’ option, because it has become obsolete. The new detection method uses the initial script’s version, if set.
- Font Preloading is temporarily removed and will be re-introduced (in a different form, along with new features) in a later release.
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3.0.0
OMGF – CORONA EDITION
* Moved Welcome-panel to the side.
* wp_remote_get() is now used instead of cURL.
* Complete code overhaul to increase performance and UX.
* Notices and errors are now more explanatory and dismissable.
* Fixed several bugs.
* OMGF now uses wp_options table, instead of own tables.
* Old tables are removed and data is migrated.
* Auto detect now works better than ever.
* Search now works bug free.
* WordPress’ default admin fonts no longer show up as results.
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2.0.0
Added Typekit’s Web Font Loader to allow loading fonts asynchronously.
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1.0
First release! No changes so far!