This is mainly a note to myself that I can use as a reference when a future me is making the same mistake again.

As I am creating the Wordpress theme for this website, I ran into some issues when trying to import the font that is currently used in the website’s title heading.

My folder structure is as follows:

src
- css
- fonts
dist
- css
- fonts

And I import my font like this:

@font-face {
  font-family: "MagicCards";
  src: url("../fonts/MagicCardsNormal.ttf");
}

I then use Webpack to bundle my assets and I was using the following configuration for that:

const path = require("path");
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require("mini-css-extract-plugin");
const CssMinimizerPlugin = require("css-minimizer-webpack-plugin");
const UglifyJsPlugin = require("uglifyjs-webpack-plugin");

module.exports = {
  // Other configuration
  plugins: [
    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
      filename: "css/style.css",
    }),
  ],
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.css$/i,
        use: [
          MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
          // css-loader and postcss-loader
        ],
      },
      {
        test: /\.(woff|woff2|eot|ttf|otf)$/i,
        type: "asset/resource",
        generator: {
          filename: "fonts/[name][ext][query]",
        },
      },
    ],
  },
};

After bundling, the font import url in the outputted css was resolved as fonts/MagicCardsNormal.ttf. This resulted in a 404 on the website as the font was being imported relatively from the css file, e.g. example.com/wp-content/theme/css/fonts/MagicCardsNormal.ttf.

So I thought I’d be clever and change generator.filename of the font from fonts/[name][ext][query] to ../fonts/[name][ext][query], but this caused the font to be bundled to its parent folder (dist instead of dist/font).

The solution turned out to be adding the publicPath option to the MiniCssExtractPlugin loader:

{
  loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader,
  options: {
    publicPath: "../",
  },
},

This causes all font imports from within the css file to be relative to the parent folder (dist in this case) instead of being relative to the css folder itself.

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