How to Add Favicon to WordPress Blog ( simplest way )

Many of you must be knowing what is favicon ? but for those who don’t know I have written some basics about it.

What is Favicon ?

Basically ,Favicon is short for Favorite Icon. It is also well know for the URL icon.It is small 16 x 16 pixels picture at the corner of some URL’s.

Favicon of SoftatTop

Favicon of SoftatTop

How to Add Favicon to WordPress Blog ?

So the simplest way doing this is -

1) Create Your Favicon :

You can create your favicon on the sites mentioned below -

  1. Genfavicon
  2. Favicon.co.uk
  3. Dynamic Drive
  4. Webscriptlab

2) Download the picture in .ico format :

3) Once you have done with favicon generation ‘Login to your cpanel

  • Go to File Manager 

filemanager

  • Select Web Root ( public_html/www)  click on ‘GO’

webroot

  • Click on ‘ public_html

public_hmtl

  • There you have to click on ‘ wp-content
  • Then click on  ’ themes
  • Go to your current theme folder ( theme which you have activated for your wp blog )
  • Upload your favicon image there

4) Now  ’ login to wordpress

  • Got to  ’Appearance
  • In appearance go to ‘ Editor
  • Go to ‘ Header ‘( header.php )
  • Paste the below code in between <head > and </head >
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico">
  • save changes

Just refresh your page and you can see favicon there :)

 

 

Pritam Patil

Pritam Patil is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SoftatTop. Just 20 Years Old Boy Pursuing Engineering Degree From Pune University,India.Tech Blogger by Choice and Passion and A Wishful Online Entrepreneur :)

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