How do I change the bookmark icon in Wordpress?

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    How do I change the bookmark icon in Wordpress?
     
    RB!, Jul 8, 2008 IP
  2. Krsto

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    It's the favicon you mean... right?

    Add the following code <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> anywhere between the <head> and </head> tags. You need to make a 16x16 pixel .ico file. It's easy, you can do it in Paint... And after that, upload it to the theme directory.
     
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    True, but there's no need to add that line of code. It helps with IE6 if i'm not wrong, but for IE7, FF and opera, there's no need.

    And yeah, it'd suggest you to look in google for something like "favicon generator", it should bring you some results of different ways of making it ;)
     
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    where exactly do i upload the favicon to
     
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  6. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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    Under root folder. Where your main index.php etc.

    DON.
     
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  7. RB!

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    i put the <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> inbetween the head tags, and put the .ico in the root folder where all the files are for that theme, its still not showing up
     
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    Have you tried clearing your cache?
     
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  9. deluxdon

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    Where you have added this code (in which file) :confused:

    You need to add this code in header.php in your template just before </head>. Like this.

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
    </head>

    I am using it at my blog without having any issue. Check it Travel with ease blog

    DON.
     
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    using link tag in Html.
    you can find the tutorial for link tag out there online.
     
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    #12
    i got it to work now using this code instead..
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />

    thx to all
     
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    Yep, the following code is correct.

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />

    If you want to download favicon plugin, you can download it from my blog post (http://money-making-tools.tipsonclicks.com/wordpress/download-wordpress-favicon-plugin).
     
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