Use Any Font on Your WordPress Blog with AnyFont WordPress Plugin
Recently I came across a relatively young WordPress plugin that allow WordPress users and designers to use basically any TrueType font you have on your computer on your WordPress blog, replacing post titles, widget titles, links and so on with automatically generated SEO-smart images using your desired font. The plugin is called AnyFont and it has been developed by Ryan Peel
The generated images have a very good level of clarity, way better than the classic SWF replacement and the plugin is really easy to administrate and customize.
AnyFont plugin management
See for yourself how easy it is to set up the output style:
And the output is really good:
As I said, the output is SEO friendly, each image being given an ALT and TITLE attribute that either automatically take content from the original text, or you can set your own values.
The plugin also uses an image-caching system to ease the server load.
Click here to go to the AnyFont plugin download page.
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useful. thanks
Useless for a news website or for a blog. Images as titles, as SEO friendly as they could be, cannot replace fonts for the simple fact that if I would like to link to this post of yours and your H1 is an image, I would like to select the title and copy/paste it into my URL description field or inside my blog post. Basically, you make me type the title of your post and that’s some sort of a usability no-no.
My 2 cents.
Cool. This will be a great help to those who are not familiar with css.
Thanks for sharing.. That’ll come in handy.
Alex, there are alternatives for listing the post titles to make it easy for user to copy-paste them, like adding a post footer containing the title and the trackback link and so on. Indeed, this makes it a bit harder for users, but in theory, this type of plugins are more for the “creatives”, or more usable on presentation websites using WordPress as CMS.
I’ve seen some alternatives – like sIFR – and i had to use a similar font
). The alternative was actually a duplicate H1. The first one was flashy, the second one, the duplicate I mean, was pure text.
About usability, it’s the reason I have my titles linked to the page, inside the article pages. For me, for example, is easier to right-click > Copy link location from the post title instead of the address bar.
Anyway, I’m glad I don’t go that far when designing a theme. I go for simple layouts and designs
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get.....d38_XL.jpg
i have trouble…
Alex, sIFR is one good alternative for news based websites, because you can still copy-paste the text. For more “static” websites, AnyFont could be better because it renders cleaner fonts. The anti-aliasing is a bit off with sIFR.
Duplicating H1s is a no-no. Even if it contains the same text. There’s place for only one H1 in a document.
SEO-wise, on the inner pages it’s better to remove the link from the title and use an alternate solution, like adding a small link close to the title named “Trackback URL” or something.
Dmitry, please address the problem with the plugin author or the . I cannot offer support for this plugin, since I’m not the one who created it.
great! it did just what I needed. Thank you.
Thanks for your information. i will apply it to my blog.
cufon.js? FLIR plugin?
I’d just use this plugin right after read this blog post. Thanks a lot BlogSessive.
Check out my blog widget title.. I apply it..