A favicon (favorites icon) is an icon associated with a blog/site. Most popular browsers display favicons as 16×16 pixel icons next to the URL in the address bar, next to the title in tabs, and next to the title as well in bookmarks.
The following is my current favicon:
How to create a favicon?
First, create a 16×16 pixel icon using your graphics editor of choice. Then, you could either save it as favicon.ico or save it in another format and use an online favicon generator to do the conversion to .ico.
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Adding a Favicon to Your Blog
What’s a favicon?
A favicon (favorites icon) is an icon associated with a blog/site. Most popular browsers display favicons as 16×16 pixel icons next to the URL in the address bar, next to the title in tabs, and next to the title as well in bookmarks.
The following is my current favicon:
How to create a favicon?
First, create a 16×16 pixel icon using your graphics editor of choice. Then, you could either save it as favicon.ico or save it in another format and use an online favicon generator to do the conversion to .ico.
Links that might be useful:
Need inspiration?
How to add it to your blog?
Once you have your favicon ready, place it in the root directory. Most popular browsers will automatically detect and use the favicon.
For better results, add the following line to the header.php file of your theme, between the <head> and </head> tags:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”wp-content/themes/current_theme/favicon.ico” />
*change ‘current_theme’ to the name of the theme that you are currently using
You’ve just added a Favicon to your blog!
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