How to add a favicon?

@alchymyth

can you help me?

hi jvazjr,

the steps are:
1. create your favicon.ico using one of the free programs, i use favicon.cc – renaming a grafic to favicon.ico WILL NOT work.
2. when you have your favicon.ico, upload it to the root directory of your blog. upload another copy into the directory of your theme as well.
3. use the line from ‘spankmartin’
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

and put it into your header.php where the other <link > tags are.
4. upload your header.php.

IE is sometimes reluctant to show a new favicon. try another browser such as firefox.

post a link to your site, and i can have a look if the favicon is online.

i am not sure how to do step 2

you already said that you know about ftp.
so use your ftp program, connect to your server.
first save the favicon.ico to the directory on your computer, where you have your wordpress files.
second save a copy of the favicon to the directory of your theme on your computer.
usually it should then be enough to mark the file and press the upload button of your ftp program to upload the file to the right place on your server.

i’ll be off for a few hours now,, but i will check back.
good luck

my wordpress files are in my hosting account with godaddy

they are not on my computer

???

ok
some basics:
for instance, my setup is;
– one set of all the wordpress directories and files on my computer;
– a second set of the files on ther server.

when i want to change something, i edit the files on my computer, save them and the upload the changed files to the server.
i work with ‘dreamweaver’, but there are other free programs available from the internet.

i suppose many others here in the forum do the same.

i know you can change wordpress files in the admin area, that is just not the way i do it.

there are many free articles on the web how to learn to customize wordpress themes, i suggest you start reading some of them, and then come back to the forum.
it is great that you have the idea and the ambition to get all these things done, however, a basic knowledge is important to have.

so then what should i do?

For some reason mine is showing up in the bookmarks drop down …. but not in the address bar.

Please let me know if Im doing something wrong.

https://www.nakedhedgefund.com

i think the forward slash / in front of the word favicon is too much.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
it is just:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

Thanks for the reply alchymyth, but still no dice without the /

And just to make sure… i cleared the cache… and after that didn’t work I did a full reboot just to be absolutely sure its not just on my side.