How to add a favorite icon to your Wordpress blog address
Ever wondered how to add a favorite icon to your blog url?
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do it.
First you need to make the icon. The icon must be square, should be 16 pixels wide by 16 pixels high, and must be named favicon.ico in order to be recognized. If you don’t want to make it yourself or don’t have an icon editor to do so, you can do it free at sites like http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/.
After the icon is made, upload it into the images directory of your blog theme.
Now you have to alter the blogs header file. After <head> and before </head>, add this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.YOURSITE.com/wp-content/themes/THEME/images/favicon.ico">
Where you see the capital letters is where you put your blogs info.
That’s it. Reload your page and you should see the favorite icon up there.
Now anyone that likes your site has to do is drag it down onto their toolbar and they’ll have your site ready to go all the time.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Good information that anyone an use. Thanks. You wouldn’t happen to know how to do it in Blogger?
October 9th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I can’t swear to it because I don’t use Blogger but it looks plausible - check out
how2make.blogspot.com/2007/02/adding-custom-favicon-to-your-blogger.html