Can anyone tell me a free program to open and save .ico files so I can add a favicon to my blog? I have found out how and where to add it in my theme settings (I think) but can't seem to open and save it to my computer first. Or is there something I'm missing? Thanks!
I have been told that a favicon.ico is just a .gif file so renaming it to .gif and editing it with anything should do. I am not sure though.
Both Windows Paint and GIMP can open, edit, and save ICOs. Nope, you can use a GIF as a favicon but it's not the same as an ICO.
Hey, with this online tool you can get the .ico from the png, jpg or gif image. http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ I hope this helps.
Cheers for the responses. I have installed IrfanView and got my animated favicon opened in it but can't seem to save the file on to my computer. Can anybody tell me how to do this and the next step to getting it on to my blog? Thanks again
Put the icon somewhere on the site and get the URL. Then add the URL to this code <link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="URL"> Code (markup): Put the URL in there and add this html to your <head></head> tag
If your favicon.ico file is in your root directory, the URL is: http://example.com/favicon.ico Code (markup): But you don't really need to add the code if the favicon is in the root or webpage directory because the browser will find it automatically.
I really appreciate the help but I am really stuck. I would love for someone to help me and post me the exact code to put in to my wordpress theme if at all possible. Here is the favicon I wish to use http://www.favicon.cc/?action=icon&file_id=27789 Thanks again for the help so far.
1. Go here: http://www.favicon.cc/favicon/789/27/favicon.ico 2. Right click on it and save it to your desktop as favicon.ico (NOT favicon.ico.gif !!!) 3. Upload favicon.ico to your website, in the root directory 4. Paste this into the HEAD section of your WP theme: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" />
Get an FTP program (Filezilla, or FireFTP for Firefox - both are free and good). Then put in your domain, username and password... and upload your file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol I'm assuming that you're hosting your own blog. If you're using the 'free' Wordpress.com hosting, then you're probably screwed.
I am using my own hosting and already got filezilla but have tried uploading through wordpress directly without having to use FZ. I have now found out that it has saved to my desktop as a favicon.ico.gif file and can't seem to find out how to save it as a favicon.ico file. When I click save image as it gives the option to save as type: GIF image or all files so I tried using all files but it saves as .gif How do I save as .ico file? Thanks again for your help
If you're using Windows - right click on the file you've already saved, select "rename" and then just get rid of the .gif. You can also do this from FileZilla. If you've uploaded it as favicon.ico.gif, you can just rename the file on your server. If you can't see extensions on your Windows machine, here's what to do. If you want to trust a complete stranger with your FTP password (or a temp password), I'd be happy to set this up for you. It will take about 30 seconds
Thanks alot, I'd rather try and do it myself first. I have uploaded it to wordpress in media library (as .ico file now) and have added <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://top-ps3games.com/favicon.ico" /> to the theme but still not working. How do I add it to the root directory? Is that the correct <link rel above?
There is no file located at http://top-ps3games.com/favicon.ico. If your favicon.ico isn't located at top-ps3games.com/favicon.ico, then it won't show up. You need to use an FTP client to either upload it there, or move it from where it is.
There are many online tools availble who can convert your image to favicon. You can Google it. To show up in your webiste you may needed to use bellow code in the head section of your HTML, <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.png" type="image/x-icon"> Code (markup): Change images/favicon.png to your actual path of your favicon.