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Favicons

December 15, 2006 by: UKStevieB

If you take a look above there should now be a little image in your browser bar. The picture is what is called a favicon.ico (Favourites icon), and I think it looks kinda neat. My favicon I put the picture together using Photoshop Elements 2.0, but I still needed to save it as a .ico file which isn't one of the extensions used by this software. I am not sure if the later versions can handle this format, but for a while there I was stymied. Eventually I found this handy little site, chami.com, that has a favicon generator that is free to use. I also discovered that the Irfan viewer does handle .ico files, and as this too is free I thought I would download it and give it a whirl. It seems to work pretty well. If you dont want to make your own favicon but fancy using the standard WordPress logo used on their own sites you can download it from wordpress.org/support by entering favicon.ico in to the search box and hitting enter. Setting the favicon up to work properly was a bit of a trial for my level of competence, but as you can see I got there in the end. Once you have uploaded your icon via your FTP client to your root folder you then have to insert this script: <link rel="shortcut icon" xhref="http//yoursite.com/favicon.ico" mce_href="http//yoursite.com/favicon.ico" > in to the header section of the theme you are using. If you decide to change themes don't forget to add the script again!

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