what has happened to fonts on latest wordpress.com dashboard?
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Every time I try and choose a different font for my pages and posts I get a message stating ‘Your changes include customized styles that will only be visible once you upgrade to a Premium plan’. The same seems to be true of making simple background color changes too – have these core function been removed from the free accounts?
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Those functions were never available on the free wordpress.com plan. You are probably confusing with the self-hosted wordpress.org.
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Yes they were, they were referred to as ‘heading’ and ‘base’ fonts (screengrabs from a few months ago below). I’ve been using them for years with wordpress.com (I’ve never used wordpress.org) and have never had a paid account. Under customise > fonts there was a choice of at least 12 fonts to choose from.
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It seems that there are now some (but not all thankfully) themes which don’t allow for any variation of font choice unless an upgrade is purchased. I haven’t seen this on wordpress.com before, perhaps a recent monetising decision. I will bare this in mind when choosing my themes going forward :-)
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To find those themes which still allow you to select from a range of fonts without an upgrade, I *think* you have to search for themes which include ‘editor-fonts’:
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