If your theme uses Google Fonts and downloads them from the Google's servers, you may have privacy-related issues (see for example GDPR and CCPA): you may prefer to prevent your website users from connecting to the Google's servers.
This package lets you do that without touching a single file: everything will be automatic!
Visitors to your website will only contact your website, and only your web server will contact Google's servers.
Here are some technical details on how it works.
The package can automatically replace tags like
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto"
/>
with a link to your webserver:
<link
rel="stylesheet"
href="/ccm/google_fonts_proxy/proxy?to=https%3A%2F%2Ffonts.googleapis.com%2Fcss%3Ffamily%3DRoboto"
/>
That way, your site visitors will ask your webserver to provide the Google Fonts, and your webserver will download the fonts from the Google servers.
So, your website visitors won't touch the Google servers.
So, your website visitors won't touch the Google servers.
This package can also "wrap" .css stylesheets hosted directly in your webserver: if they contain direct references to Google servers, like for example
the package will serve to the website visitors some code like this:
@font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v19/abc.woff2) format('woff2');
}
the package will serve to the website visitors some code like this:
@font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
src: url(/ccm/google_fonts_proxy/proxy?to=https%3A%2F%2Ffonts.gstatic.com%2Fs%2Froboto%2Fv19%2Fabc.woff2) format('woff2');
}
This package also supports caching responses, so that there will be almost no performance impact.