Adding a favicon to your site

By Austin on April 2, 2009

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Looking to add a favicon to you site?

Inside your WordPress theme’s functions file (functions.php) add the following to inside your PHP code.

/**
 * FAVICON
 * @WPCult.com
 */
function my_favicon() { ?>
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo bloginfo("stylesheet_directory") ?>'/images/favicon.ico" />
<?php }

add_action('wp_head', 'my_favicon');

That’s it, just be sure to upload an icon image or a .gif/.png. Be sure to correct the target location id the file is located somewhere else.

Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged favicon, functions, functions.php

This post written by Austin

A web designer and avid WordPress guru. Visit my personal blog, and please follow @WPCult on twitter for site updates. You can also follow me personally @TheFrosty.

8 responses to “Adding a favicon to your site”

Peter
April 2, 2009 at 11:37 pm | Permalink | Reply

The backstory on why it’s traditionally a .ico (instead of .gif or .jpg) is actually pretty interesting – you can read up on it on this wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

Ok, so maybe its only interesting to me .

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1. Austin
  April 3, 2009 at 10:00 am | Permalink | Reply
  
  Yeah, I’ve read it. Though with more browsers supporting it, I typically like to use transparent png’s these days.
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April 18, 2009 at 1:24 pm | Permalink | Reply

Thanks great post.
Matthew Coleman
April 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm | Permalink | Reply

Is there a benefit to doing it this way, instead of just adding into the header.php?
1. Austin
  April 27, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Permalink | Reply
  
  No difference.
mktanny
October 29, 2009 at 4:13 pm | Permalink | Reply

Moved from blogspot to wordpress and then was searchinhg for a way to add favicon to my blog then got here thnx.
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