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.
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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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Yeah, I've read it. Though with more browsers supporting it, I typically like to use transparent png's these days.
Thanks great post.
Is there a benefit to doing it this way, instead of just adding into the header.php?
No difference.
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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