u/Walk-The-Dogs

Last year, or whenever it was that WP Rocket enabled its Media -> Self-host Google Fonts feature, my sharp-eyed project manager spotted that at least one of the Google fonts wasn't rendering properly. She was right. It looked similar to a Lato font but wasn't. The biggest giveaway was that it was a heavier weight.

That sent me down a rabbit hole looking for the cause. I'd updated both Elementor and WP Rocket the night before so that gave me a starting point. As a temporary fix I found flipping Elementor -> Editor ->Settings -> Advanced -> Google Fonts Load from "swap" to something else and then back again fixed the issue. However it also stalled the site for several seconds on initial page load as (I presumed) Elementor forced those fonts to reload.

Since the site has a lot of static data that has to change requiring production pushes sometimes 2x or 3x/day, this was clearly disruptive. That's when I found a post that said you couldn't have both WP Rocket and Elementor handling Google Fonts. The post recommended turning off WP Rocket's Google Fonts support and letting Elementor handle it.

That answer worked, at until the last update to Elementor Pro. Then that font issue returned except this time I couldn't blame it on a conflict with WP Rocket. The "fix" was back to flipping that Google Fonts Load from "swap" to "block" and then back to "swap" again. Back to the internet for a solution.

ChatGPT had a different opinion:

For your setup, the cleaner and more modern approach is usually:

• Disable Elementor → Settings → Advanced → Google Fonts
• Enable WP Rocket → “Self-host Google Fonts”

That avoids duplicate loading and lets WP Rocket manage the optimization layer.

I tried it and it appeared to work. I flushed WP Rocket, ran Elementor's "Clear Fiies & Data" and blew the Bunny CDN cache. That font issue was still there for anonymous users on the Mac desktop versions of Safari and Firefox but not Chrome and Edge.

Now I don't know what to think.

Has anyone else run into this?

All of sudden, starting yesterday, none of the camera thumbnails on the home page are clickable/expandable. Worse, those cameras randomly keep going on and offline. This is happening on all Mac browsers including Edge and Brave.