OpenSans FTW

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OpenSans FTW

by George J

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Description

OpenSans FTW is just a simple plugin that brings back the old Open Sans font to WordPress 4.6+ dashboard.

So… Keep calm and use Open Sans! ๐Ÿ™‚

Credits

Developed by George Jipa

  1. Unpack the download package
  2. Upload all files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, include folders
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  1. Login Page

    Login Page

  2. Dashboard

    Dashboard

Installation Instructions

  1. Unpack the download package
  2. Upload all files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, include folders
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Thank You!

By ssgupta on May 16, 2017

Thank You!

A must-have for WP 4.6+

By webmarka on October 1, 2016

Thanks for this simple plugin snippet! It brings back joy and happiness using WP 4.6+ backend ๐Ÿ™‚

super

By glamink on September 3, 2016

I'm a fan of minimizing requests, but I also love cross-platform consistency. So thanks for bringing back OpenSans!

Works like a charm!

By trdrst (gekkocorp) on September 3, 2016

Thank you very much for this useful plugin! We criticize the choice of founding WP Dashboard only on system font, now WP is horrible on macOS! But thanks to your plugin we have Open Sans again ๐Ÿ™‚

a sight for sore eyes

By savalina on September 3, 2016

Thanks for this!

TL;DR

While on Mac OS the San Francisco font is tolerable (although my eyes are very much used to Open Sans), opening my dashboards on a Windows machine made me instantly grumpy.

This trend with OS-default fonts is the crappiest trend ever.. This can sometimes be a bad idea even for a native app, yet there are folks that think this is a good idea for websites/web-based stuff. It's definitely NOT good, it's just lazy, ugly and monotonous. @font-face was created for a reason, folks!

And what about unified cross-platform user experience? I'm not prepared to answer to my clients on support threads when they ask me why my dashboard screenshots look different than it looks to them...

Sorry for the long rant, I just had to say it. Now thanks again for this plugin. Live long and prosper! ๐Ÿ™‚

Thank you!

By (choegl) on September 3, 2016

Thank you so much. Whoever at the WordPress team had the idea to change to system default fonts (reminds me of the old times when every website had one of the same five fonts) should be tarred and feathered. What a $%ยง&% idea!

Salvation thanks to your plugin. Now I can relax.

Thanks for saving my eyes!

By pennysstuff (AroundAdelaide) on September 3, 2016

๐Ÿ™‚

Easy and great

By ramonjosegn on September 3, 2016

Hi, thanks for the plugin, I can look a better aspect in my WordPress admin, the new local font look very bad in Mozilla Firefox, I can repair with this plugin

1.0.1 (29/08/2016)

  • check if open-sans is registered before enqueue
  • language files (translated in DE and RO)

1.0.0 (17/08/2016)

  • first release
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