[mike6209]

Why…..

how to fix it 🙁

I need help.

[Zed]

Without being able to browse the site I cannot give you any helpful information.

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[foxpaw]

Same issue here … I’ve been around and around trying to find out if this is a character mapping issue, font issue, what? Icons show up as squares or “funky” characters … not as icons.
help, please.

btw, hosting on GoDaddy … i know, not the best, but it’s where it is …

[foxpaw]

not sure if i double posted …
same issue on jladder.org, icons come through as blank squares or “funky” characters. font issues could be character mapping, or something else odd.

site is hosted on GoDaddy, hope that is not the issue, because we cannot change that …

[MikevZ]

Sounds like a similar problem I ran into with Nirvana on GoDaddy-hosted WordPress … and fixed it:

Add this to your Web.config:

<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name=”access-control-allow-origin” value=”*” />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>

See thread at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-cross-domains-icons-aka-elusive-font

Hope this helped,
Cheers Mike

[MikevZ]

Hmm, my previous reply seems to be blocked or queued which happens a lot with reCAPTCHA here. Allow me to potentially double post:

I ran into a very similar problem (the “funky” icon is the search-icon which is part of the Elusive font family). By default, GoDaddy blocks webfonts served by a Content Distribution Network (CDN), here’s how I fixed it by modifying your web.config:

<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name=”access-control-allow-origin” value=”*” />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>

More info on https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-cross-domains-icons-aka-elusive-font

Hope this helped,
Cheers Mike

[foxpaw]

That change to the web.config may work for IIS, but what about Apache? and what about for fonts that are not through a CDN? Elusive is included in the Nirvana theme, and my GoDaddy hosting folks are saying “nope, most be a code issue” … unless … “maybe you need to turn on some PHP extensions?” well gee, if I knew WHICH PHP extensions may need to be enabled for this theme to work, then I’d do so, but what extensions would be needed? and why was that information not included in the Nirvana settings info?
I’m sad. I really really really want my site to look awesome and work great, and right now it looks ok and is losing vital functionality because the webfonts will not work.

[Zed]

It is a browser security limitation. You are browsing your site from one URL while WordPress believes it is installed on a (slightly) different one and tries to load fonts from there.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS

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