When you install or download a personify site design package. Each of the four have distinct font settings. If you choose to move on or update the site and no longer use the personify system. What is the method for removing fonts? The fonts in the font manager do not have the typical “trash can” icon or the settings icon that is shown on all other self loaded or chosen fonts.
these were the steps it seems is the only method to remove previous Personify data from a site. However this can be problematic if there has been more than one install of personify. Using the sitedrive tool if a page is teleported to a new website it carries with it the artifacts and issues from a different personify install. To completely remove the Personify system, its components, and any additional code or styles it injected into your site, you will need to tackle it in a few distinct steps. Personify is built on top of the “Max” engine, so removing it involves deleting the front-end assets and then disabling the engine itself.
Here is how to wipe the slate clean:
1. Delete the Templates and Components
Since Personify installs a library of templates and custom components, you have to delete these manually to remove them from your site.
- Open Cornerstone and navigate to the Template Manager .
- Locate all the Personify templates and components.
- Delete them just like you would any other template file.
Note: Deleting these components is the required first step, as it removes the active references locking your fonts and colors.
2. Clean Up Global Fonts & Colors
Once every Personify component and template is deleted, the locks on the global fonts and colors will release.
- Navigate to your Font Manager and Color Manager .
- Delete the Personify fonts and colors.
- If colors are still stuck: You can force-remove them by navigating to the Tools tab, finding Colors , and clicking “Edit State” . From there, you can edit the underlying code to delete the specific colors you want to get rid of.
3. Remove Global CSS
Personify installations rely on custom CSS to style the design system.
- Go to Cornerstone > Theme Options > CSS (or the Global CSS editor).
- Highlight and delete any custom CSS that was added during the Personify installation.
4. Disable the Max Engine (Code Cleanup)
To ensure no extra background code from the Max/Personify system is running on your site, you can turn the engine off completely. You can do this via the interface or through code:
Option A: Interface (Recommended)
- Go to Cornerstone > Preferences .
- Locate the Enable Max option (it is turned on by default) and turn it off.
- Reload the builder for the changes to take effect.
Option B: PHP Filter If you want to globally disable the Max system at the code level, add the following filter to your child theme’s functions.php file:
PHPadd_filter('cs_max_enabled', '__return_false');