Changing post/page editor interface as well as post/page display?

  • I’m running current versions of WP with all plugins up-to-date. Theme is a Genesis child theme. Site design has been constant since the mid-2010s. After a recent site failure traced to an old bit of script to embed Google Fonts library, I installed the Fonts Plugin. I wish I’d come across it years ago; it seems to do exactly what I need, with a minimum of fuss…

    However, I was startled (and a bit annoyed) that it also changed the fonts in the post/page editor interface — particularly, it does not honor the different fonts assigned to different blocks of text. E.g., I use a lot of blockquote blocks, which now appear in the editor in exactly the same font family as my default for paragraph blocks. The blockquotes look fine in the site preview window, but are indistinguishable from the surrounding text when editing the post/page. Is there a way to tell the plugin “Don’t tamper with WP font settings in the editor”?

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  • Plugin Author DannyCooper

    (@dannycooper)

    Hi @fljerseyboy,

    Is the problem only reflected in the editor? ie. not in the frontend display?

    If so, this can be fixed by navigating to Appearance → Customize→ Fonts Plugin → Debugging and enabling the ‘Disable Editor Controls’ checkbox.

    Let me know if I can help with anything else.

    Thanks

    • This reply was modified 2 months, 3 weeks ago by DannyCooper.
    Thread Starter FLJerseyBoy

    (@fljerseyboy)

    Thanks for the quick reply. I followed those instructions but the problem persists. Here’s an example… Prior to installing the plugin, both the editor and the frontend display of a quote (upper fragment) and the attribution below it looked like this:

    After installing the plugin, I see this:

    (The text in the two screenshots flows differently because different fonts, of course.)

    For reference, the plain paragraph blocks use a font called Cardo; the blockquote is in Lato. In the editor, via inspection, all content other than headings (which display properly) is displaying as Cardo — no exception for blockquotes.

    While I was in that plugin customization, I also experimented with the Advanced options but they had no effect on the way the editor displayed.

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