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Ultimate TinyMCE. Google Analytics for WordPress. Wordpress Google Fonts Plugin. Google’s Font Directory is one of the most valuable contributions to web typography in a really long time. By hosting an assortment of free open source fonts, they have made it practical for anyone to add rich typography to their website with very little hassle. To make using Google Fonts even easier, I have created a plugin for WordPress that simplifies the process even further. Simply choose the font you want to use on your site from a dropdown menu and the plugin will take care of everything else. You can check the boxes of elements that you want to define, add custom css, or do it the old fashioned way and use your theme’s stylesheet.

While I wait for WordPress to add the plugin to their official directory, you can download the plugin from the link below. Download “WP Google Fonts” plugin from the official WordPress plugin directory. Here is a screenshot of the plugin’s control panel page in WordPress: Meteor Slides | Josh Leuze. Contact Form 7 - Just another contact form plugin for WordPress. Simple but flexible. Black Studio TinyMCE Widget. WP Google Fonts. Google's free font directory is one of the most exciting developments in web typography in a very long time. The amazing rise of this new font resource has made this plugin the most popular font plugin on WordPress and it shows no signs of stopping.

While font plugin solutions like FontBurner.com have helped bring rich typography to WordPress themes, the selection of fonts easily available to the average blogger have been limited. The WP Google Font plugin makes it even easier to use Google's free service to add high quality fonts to your WordPress powered site. Not only does this plugin add the necessary Google code, but it also gives you the ability to assign the Google fonts to specific CSS elements of your website from within the WordPress admin. Or if you would rather, you can target the Google fonts from your own theme's stylesheet.

Right now, the Google Directory has hundreds of great fonts, and the selection is steadily growing.