The plugin deregisters the admin style that loads these fonts remotely and replaces it with stylesheet that loads local copies of the same fonts..
Not recommended for production because it's almost always faster for your visitors to load fonts from Google or to use cached copies...
Automatic installation is the option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don't even need to leave your browser.
To do automatic install of Local Open Sans, log in to your WordPress admin panel, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New..
Once you've found the plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description.
The method involves downloading the plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your FTP application..
Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it.
Using FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation's wp-content plugins directory..
Activate the plugin from the Plugins within WordPress admin...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
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