Hello. I want to use Google’s ‘Roboto’ font throughout my site. I have implemented the ‘Easy Google Fonts’ plugin which was supposed to have that font, but it didn’t work. After that I scoured the web looking for solutions, of which I found a few with Custom CSS suggestions, but they only seem to work for Segoe UI and Serif and not Roboto. I’ve been at it for about an hour now and I think it’s time to ask if there’s anyone smarter out there who might have any suggestions?
Many thanks, Eric
hai,
Thread: adding new google fonts
this thread discuss about adding Google fonts to vantage theme. look if it helps you to solve the issue.
Hi Eric,
gopu’s answer is valid but depending on where you want you would like Roboto to be used, there may be a direct theme setting you could use.
Please navigate to WP AdminAppearanceCustomize and then Theme DesignFonts and adjust one of the Font drop downs.
For more information, please refer to the documentation for the Fonts settings group.
Thank you Gopu and Alex. I found and tried Gopu’s article even before I posted my question here on the forum, but it didn’t work for Roboto for whatever reason. I just tried Alex’s suggestions and although the navigation wasn’t exactly as described (when I went from Appearance -> Customize the next step wasn’t ‘Theme Design’ but there was an option for Typography) I was able to find Roboto and change it site wide which was great. But I was disappointed that the same setting for body paragraphs of blog posts or page text forces the navigation header bar up top to have that same font (I would have thought the nav bar would be H2 or H3). Roboto looks great in body text but not so in the navigation bar. Does anyone have an idea how to separate those two on the vantage theme?
PS, I am all for becoming a premium member. Site Origin has been great to work with so far and I just wasn’t sure if I would be able to use it for prime time so I haven’t upgraded yet. It’s looking like it may work, but I have to be sure that I can do simple things like delineiate body text and nav bar text somehow first. Once I commit to it I will pay the upgrade cost in appreciation for the product.
Thanks!
Hi Eric,
Wait, you don’t see a settings group called Theme Design? What version of Vantage are you using (this can be verified by navigating to WP AdminAppearanceThemes and clicking the Vantage thumbnail – latest version is 1.5.5)? To clarify, the Typography settings group isn’t being added by Vantage and is instead being added by a plugin.
This is what the customizer menu should look like with Vantage active and zero plugins:
There’s actually a font setting that will allow you to specify the navigation font but it’s included in the Theme DesignFont settings. Maybe try reinstalling Vantage by navigating to WP AdminAppearanceThemes and changing to a non-vantage theme, then delete Vantage. Click Add New, search for and install Vantage.
Thanks Alex for the information. I checked the rev. level and it wasn’t at the latest, so I updated to 1.5.5 and it showed the menu you described. After that it worked as you said, many thanks!
I do have what I hope is one last question on basic stuff that I can’t find a clear answer to. There is a sidebar that has wordpress.org in it and a few other links (shown below in text). There doesn’t seem to be any clear way to remove that and make it look like a normal website sidebar. I did some looking on the forum and a couple people mentioned custom CSS coding but I would think choosing what is in the sidebar would be easier than understanding how to custom code. Do you have any suggestions on that?
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Thanks, Eric
Hi Eric,
I’m happy that you were able to resolve the missing menus with an update. :)
That’s a WordPress included widget called Meta. It’s not at all customizable so it would be a better idea to switch to a different widget to display the data you wish to display. With that said, there are plugins which modify this widget so if you do wish to use the meta widget consider installing one to extend this widget.
To clarify, you can add widgets to your sidebar by navigating to WP AdminAppearanceWidgets.