Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts Typography

This is as simple as it can be – just select the font you would like for the website and the plugin handles the rest. Using Fonts Plugin to add fonts to WordPress is an easy task.

You can add as many fonts your WordPress site needs for each HTML element of your site. Custom heading fonts, custom body fonts and everything else you need are available within the Fonts Plugin.

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class MyModel(models.Model):
    job = models.CharField()
    address = models.CharField()
    start_date = models.DateTimeField()

    def custom_group_header(self):
        return self.job + "; " + self.address

This worked and got the needed data on the report, but seemed far too cumbersome to be the correct way.

The Better Way

A few days went by and I was asked to add more related data to the report group header. I almost created yet another custom method but just knew there had to be a better way. I googled around and came across a Django feature suggestion involving expanding a CHOICE field form the choice key to the choice value that was ultimately rejected. But the rejection comment held the answer I was looking for.

By virtue of the grouper having the list objects you can ask that list for the first object and access it’s model fields.

How to Refer to Additional Model Fields from the Grouper

group.list.0.field_to_display

So, for my next header change I did the following in the template without having to add unneeded code to the models.py file.

{% for job in jobs %}
	<tr>
		<td colspan="4"><strong>{{ job.grouper }}</strong></td>
		<td colspan="2" align="right"><strong>Start Date: {{ job.list.0.start_date|date:"Y-m-d" }}</strong></td>
	</tr>
	{% for task in job.list %}
	<tr>
		...
	</tr>
	{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

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It took me quite a bit to time to stumble across this, as the Django documentation does not mention it.

If you have a ‘related_name’ set for a ForeignKey field on a model, USE that related_name as the MODELCHILD_SET name when trying to access related objects.

Working Example

Based on the example Polls app in the Writing your first Django app Documentation.

<h1>{{ question.question_text }}</h1>
<ul>
{% for choice in question.choice_set.all %}
    <li>{{ choice.choice_text }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

If you have in your models, the Choice model in your models.py file.

from django.db import models


class Question(models.Model):
    question_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')


class Choice(models.Model):
    question = models.ForeignKey(Question, related_name='choices', on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    choice_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    votes = models.IntegerField(default=0)

You will need to use that related_name in place of the modelname_set in the template to access the child objects.

Thus, your template would need to look like this otherwise you won’t get any objects from the ForeignKey relation.

<h1>{{ question.question_text }}</h1>
<ul>
{% for choice in question.choices.all %}
    <li>{{ choice.choice_text }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

I sure hope this helps someone scratching their head and endlessly checking their model names.

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Please note as of May 2024 this plugin appears to be abandoned.

Be very wary of using any plugin that is not actively maintained as it can lead to any number of possible security vulnerabilities.

Check out this post for a modern alternative to Easy Google Fonts.

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Being that this is another way too late awake kind of night, I’ll just leave this right here.

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