Font useage after migration

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Im using www.ads-software.com to manage the website, no longer use .com.

please answer my question

since you want to use a google font I would suggest using the plugin create block theme. I know you are not creating a block theme. But, This plugin has an option to manage fonts. It will be listed below the editor option in the dash board. after the plugin is activated. You can select the manage font option. The option will allow you to download and update your current theme to use google fonts that you have chosen . The fonts are added in the theme.json file and can be applied in the style section of the theme editor.

I really don’t understand much of this, no idea why you are referring to a Google font and I am using a block theme.

I know how to use the Syles for various elements, my point was that when I to Styles/Typography and select the font I want it does not change after saving. The font being used is a serif font, the one I want (commissioner) is not so it is easy to see that changes are not happening.

Why?

Update to this issue, it does not matter what font I pick from the drop downbox,or what element or block I try to change, nothing changes.

This is stopping me from publishing the site so is becoming urgent

You want to use the a font named Commisioner which appears to be a google font. You don’t automatally have access to all fonts. Generally themes only use system based fonts or the author installs a few fonts. Fonts like software may require a licence to use. To use a different font you have to install that font. The theme author may or may not have installed the font you are looking for. You can try conntacting the theme author to see what fonts have been shipped with your theme. You didn’t specifiy what theme you are using so we have no ideal what theme you are using or what fonts come with the theme. When I look at your url I see only one installed font which is named roborto. The blocks are not part of the theme. Blocks are independent from the theme. To use a font in a block you have a few choices. First, you can add it to your theme.json file. Second, you can manually enqueue the font and use css to display it. The plugin I mentioned create-blocks with handle this for you. It will install the font and register in the theme.json file. There might be other plugins in the plugin directory that can aid you with this. If you still are unable to figure this out. You might need to hire a developer to help you. You can try places like fiverr to find someone who will do it fairly inexpensive.

Thank you, that makes it much clearer. I was told by the support team at WP.com that using the All-in-one plugin to move the site would include all my cusomisations, fonts etc but that now appears to be incorrect. I’m using a theme called Creatio.

I’ll follow your suggestions above and report back

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by rynd2it.

The all in one plugin usually does a good job. If the theme is showing the fonts it might have correctly installed the fonts but didn’t copy the font files. If that is the case you might be able to download the files and add them to your theme. There is no standard folder for fonts. But, Usually the developer will create a folder named fonts. Another problem that could occure is the path to the fonts changed. WordPress needs to know where the fonts are located in your structure. If for some reason this information has changed. WordPress could just just looking in the wrong place for these files. Fonts usually have different extentions. One of the most common is .ttf but there also could be .woff. In the past this was nessary because different browses used different fonts. Too make the fonts work on all browsers, you would have to use several different font extentions. I think most browser now use the ttf extention. You can also install the font on your windows operating system by placing it in the fonts folder or using the font installer. This would allow you to work in an application like word and see how your font will look on the site.

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by mrtom414.
• This reply was modified 1 year ago by mrtom414.

Also, if you paid a subscription for the all in one you can probably reach out to their support team for assistance. If there software failed to move the fonts they might be willing to help you resolve this problem.

This is getting complicated. I have used the font plugin as suggested and it did recognise the font “Commissioner” but it still did not accept my changes. Having done some more reading, I installed the Gutenberg plugin and then things started to change. It only had one variant, so I treid to install the other variants and then I got an inexplicable error – see screen shot

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17QK1x-WN0shF8nOhZ9HDRzbGywctL4Z1?usp=sharing

• This reply was modified 1 year ago by rynd2it.