If you are trying to deal with the dreaded insecure messages when trying to use Google Fonts on WordPress based sites, here are a few things to try. Within the specific theme folder you are using, edit the functions.php file. You want to examine the file and search/look for “googleapis”. That should help you find…
How to permit Google Fonts through your Watchguard WebBlocker content filter proxy
Out of the box, the Watchguard Firewall WebBlocker content filter does not permit Google Fonts to download and be viewed through the proxy and into your network. This creates a problem because a lot of websites now use embedded fonts to properly render the website. To fix this, do the following: Log into the Watchguard Firewall…
How to use Google Fonts under both SSL and non-SSL without SSL insecure messages
The fix for this is very simple and will work under all the common browsers. This has been tested on IE9, Firefox 13, Safari and Chrome. locate this line on your HTML page (or template): <link href=’http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:400,700′ rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’> and change it to this: <link href=’//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:400,700′ rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’> This simple change will make your browser…