We are very happy with wpdatatables. Unfortunately it uses googlefonts import tags in its CSS and what is not allowed under the GDPR. Unfortunately there is no way to disable this in the plugin yet. This causes many website owners big trouble as there are already compensation judgements in the EU and lawyers using this for business models: They are massively scanning websites for such google fonts imports and send letters to the website owners. The topic has already be raised to the developers here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-import/ What is strange is that this topic is closed. As far as I can see this important feature is still missing. Could TMS provide a fix / help to push this urgent issue to the plugin developers?
They will be working to implement an option to give the ability to users,
to implement a hook ( with instructions on how to do it) that can completely disable all Google Web Fonts.
I can't say an exact ETA when they will finish it, but hopefully in one of the next updates.
You could follow this ChangeLog page, here the developers state every change/new feature/fix on every update, and when you see the option added for disabling Google Fonts, during that Update it will be added.
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For the time being, here is a workaround for how you can disable them :
On the right side, these are all the locations of the CSS files ( there are 11 of them), inside our plugin folder, on your WordPress plugins folder.
I will show you how to find the first one, and I believe you should have no trouble finding the rest, but If you need additional help, please let me know.
- You will have to search for these files in the wpDataTable folders.
- This first file admin.css is located in ../plugins/wpdatatables/assets/css/admin/admin.css
Open it with any text/code editor, you can press CTRL+F and find the line that starts with " @import url "
thank you very much for your fasr reaction & great commitment!
I am very happy to hear that the issue now has high priority for the developers and also thanks for explaining the workaround for the time until the issue is solved.
Since Version 5.3 (Released 26.01.2023) wpdatatables has an option to remove Google Fonts for GDPR compliance. We tested it and it works as expected. Thanks for fixing to TMS Plugins team!
We are very happy with wpdatatables. Unfortunately it uses googlefonts import tags in its CSS and what is not allowed under the GDPR. Unfortunately there is no way to disable this in the plugin yet. This causes many website owners big trouble as there are already compensation judgements in the EU and lawyers using this for business models: They are massively scanning websites for such google fonts imports and send letters to the website owners.
The topic has already be raised to the developers here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-fonts-import/ What is strange is that this topic is closed. As far as I can see this important feature is still missing. Could TMS provide a fix / help to push this urgent issue to the plugin developers?
Hi, cs
I am glad to hear that you are happy with our plugin.
And I also realise that this issue with a user-friendly way to disable Google Fonts is something that several users already suggested.
I will check with our Developer Team to see if we can provide any kind of ETA for this;
we will report back as soon as they advise.
Thank you
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
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Hi, cs
The developers advised on this.
They will be working to implement an option to give the ability to users,
to implement a hook ( with instructions on how to do it) that can completely disable all Google Web Fonts.
I can't say an exact ETA when they will finish it, but hopefully in one of the next updates.
You could follow this ChangeLog page, here the developers state every change/new feature/fix on every update, and when you see the option added for disabling Google Fonts, during that Update it will be added.
-
For the time being, here is a workaround for how you can disable them :
On the right side, these are all the locations of the CSS files ( there are 11 of them), inside our plugin folder, on your WordPress plugins folder.
I will show you how to find the first one, and I believe you should have no trouble finding the rest, but If you need additional help, please let me know.
- You will have to search for these files in the wpDataTable folders.
- This first file admin.css is located in ../plugins/wpdatatables/assets/css/admin/admin.css
Open it with any text/code editor, you can press CTRL+F and find the line that starts with " @import url "
in this file the first line says
you can either delete that line or comment it so it becomes inactive, and it will disable the google fonts.
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Important to note: During updates, this will be overridden, so if you update the plugin, and If the devs still didnt' implement this,
you would have to do this again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
For the time being, we have to do it manually like that, until the developers implement the easier option.
They will work as quick as they can, but as i said, i can't guarantee a deadline for it.
Let me know how it goes.
Thank you
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
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Hi, cs
Just doing a follow-up on this.
Our developers have raised the priority of this solution, since more reports from users are coming in,
so it should be added in one of the next updates.
We still can't promise an exact ETA, but i can confirm the priority is raised and they will do their best to finish that as soon as possible.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
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Dear Miloš,
thank you very much for your fasr reaction & great commitment!
I am very happy to hear that the issue now has high priority for the developers and also thanks for explaining the workaround for the time until the issue is solved.
Since Version 5.3 (Released 26.01.2023) wpdatatables has an option to remove Google Fonts for GDPR compliance. We tested it and it works as expected. Thanks for fixing to TMS Plugins team!
Hi, cs.
Yes, our devs have added that.
I am delighted to hear that this has been resolved.
Thank you for letting us know. Anything else that we could assist with, please don't hesitate to create new tickets.
Thank you so much for the kind words. We wish you all the best.
Kind Regards,
Miloš Jovanović
[email protected]
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