• Hi,
    I’m new to font awesome and find it great. Is there any way to avoid loading fonts remotely? I.e. install fonts locally?

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  • Plugin Author mlwilkerson

    (@mlwilkerson)

    Definitely. It’s referred to as self-hosting, where you put all of the assets on your own web server and host them yourself. This plugin does not support self-hosting. So if you want to self-host, you’d be doing that instead of using this plugin.

    The exact steps you’d take to accomplish that will vary depending on your web server environment.

    One way to get the assets needed for self-hosting is from the download .zip file available for each release. If you have a fontawesome.com account, the download would be available from your account page. There are other ways of getting the assets for Font Awesome Free, such as the GitHub repo.

    One of the ways you could setup self-hosting on WordPress would be follow a pattern similar to these docs. Except that wherever you see URLs in the docs that refer to CDN locations, you’d use URLs that refer back to your own web server–to the locations where you’re self-hosting the Font Awesome assets.

    Thread Starter alfredino

    (@alfredino)

    Thank you for your prompt reply. It would be useful to have an option in the plugin to install fonts locally.
    I found a request on github about this https://github.com/FortAwesome/wordpress-fontawesome/issues/60.
    This is very important in view of GDPR compliance.

    I totally agree with @alfredino The local storage is a must have in this plugin as an available option. I hope that it could be implemented in next releases to make this plugin GDPR compliant.

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