Favicons

  • I am another who is having trouble with favicons not showing up. Though it does show up temporarily in IE, NOT Firefox, where I would like it to atay PUT! Favicon is uploaded to my root.

    First, to edit the php script, do I go to my web host control panel, and presumably content/themes, or use wordpress theme editor? If the former, exactly which file do I edit please? I think it may be header.php but where?

    And is THIS the script to add a shortcut to (based on a reply in this forum to a related issue)

    <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”https://digital-newworld.com/blog/link/to/favicon.ico”&gt;

    Thank you for any help.

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  • You shouldn’t need to mess around with any script for a Favicon to show up. You simply make it 16×16 or 32×32 and place it in your root directory. If it’s not showing up that doesn’t mean that it’s not there. Post your URL (digital-newworld.com?) and let others check it for you. Most of the time that Favicons don’t work it’s because they were placed in the wrong directory or the browser needs refreshing.

    Oops…. almost forgot, Internet Explorer browsers (as of version 6.x) associate favicons with bookmarks. So you must first bookmark the web page. The favicon will appear on the browser address bar and on the Favorites menu, the second time you visit the bookmarked page. If the favicon doesn’t appear even after bookmarking and revisiting the web page, clearing the cache and restarting the browser should help.

    Thread Starter witewolf

    (@witewolf)

    https://digital-newworld.com/blog/ is the site. The file is 32×32, favicno.ico, and stored in the root. It showed up yesterday in my sites admin, but not today, and not at all if firefox. I’ve no idea why, but the favicon only shows up immediately after uploading it.

    https://digital-newworld.com/favicon.ico gives me a 404.

    Make sure the file is in the right place on your server.

    Thread Starter witewolf

    (@witewolf)

    That’s the problem, 404. Where EXACTLY whould it be stored? At present it is just uploaded to the root, after uploading it was visible, but not now. I’ve tried it it many locations, same result so far.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    The /favicon.ico is the default location. If you can’t put it there then try this:

    If you can upload the favicon.ico to a location that you control (wp-content would be okay) and you can retrieve the icon via

    https://digital-newworld.com/blog/wp-content/favicon.ico

    Then you might want to try this plugin: https://www.digitalramble.com/favicon-manager-wordpress-plugin/

    I have not used it but the code looks good. It add the right favicon entries into your header. You’ll need to tell it where to look but that should not be a problem.

    Where EXACTLY whould it be stored?

    It should be at https://digital-newworld.com/favicon.ico

    jdembowki’s solution will work within WP, but in general, it should be available at that URL.

    But it in the same directory on your server as the stuff that shows up at https://digital-newworld.com/

    Thread Starter witewolf

    (@witewolf)

    Thanks jdembowski, the icon show up now in IE, but still NOT Firefox! The icon also showed up in the wp plug in as I added it. I’ve still no idea why FF will not display it.

    Thread Starter witewolf

    (@witewolf)

    I think it’s because of my blog extension. It shows up now in my root domain.

    You can also force it to be recognized although I would think it would not be needed to do so.

    https://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html

    See the bit at the end of the page. You’ll have to modify your theme’s header.php to include teh lines of code.

    another trick when testing favicons in IE is to click and drag the IE Page logo to the right slightly a couple times until it is replaced with your favicon. IE doesn’t like to show them… ??

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