Adding Google Fonts to Your WordPress Website

Adding Google Fonts into your WordPress website is a two-step process, which requires you to add CSS and PHP to your theme or plugin. Many people forget to do one of the steps. In this hands-on lab, you will write the code while I walk you through it step-by-step.

What You Will Learn

In this lab, you will learn:

1. how to select a font from Google;
2. the impact of selecting font styles;
3. use the Google font instructions to help you load the feature into your code;
4. working with Google Chrome Developer Tools;
5. actual code changes to both CSS and PHP;
6. and upticking your theme’s version number to ensure the new version is loaded in the browser.

What to Do Next?

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Overview of the Genesis Framework – Developer’s Guide to Customizing Genesis

In this hands-on lab, you will be introduced to the Genesis framework, its file structure, codebase, and developer-friendly customization features. You'll walk through its source code and be introduced to the Genesis-way. You'll learn about why the child-parent paradigm promotes clean, quality code.

Learn more

Check out the Genesis Theming Framework for more hands-on labs, insights, Docx, and more.

Check out the series page for more labs: Absolute Beginner Series