A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon or an url icon, is an image icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. It gives an identity to the website or blog.
How to add a Favicon to a self hosted WordPress blog?
1. First decide on the image or logo, that you want to appear as the favicon of your blog. You can use your own logo or you can create a new one. There are many website, that offers free favicons. If you want, you can get one from them!
2. If you want to use a large image or logo, then you can convert it to proper size, by using a favicon.ico creator. There are lots of such favicon generators, available over internet. Or, simply you can resize it by using you favourite image editor. The standard size of a favicon is 16X16 pixel. Apart from .ico files, you can also use .gif, .jpg or .png files as a favicon.
3. Once you favicon is readey, upload it to your server by using an FTP client. Upload it directly into the root directory. For example:
/public_html/favicon.ico
4. Now you are ready to add your favicon! Open the header.php file and put the following code between the <head> and </head> tags.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”>
Save the header.php file.
5. That’s it. Open your site and if everything is ok, then you should see your favicon on the browser’s URL bar.
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