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1. reevo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi All

   Has anyone managed to get a custom apple-touch-icon.png working on their wordpress blog? I've tried and uploaded the png to various places without success. Wondered if anyone could advise.

   Cheers

2. ameo02
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   where do you exactly want it? link 2 your site would be helpful.

3. jdembowski
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Reevo,

   I have not tried it yet, but I have to ask myself... What would Dave Taylor do? :)

   In a little while I'll create an icon in PNG format and explicitly put in the

   <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/your/url/icon.png" />

   And see what blows up.

4. jdembowski
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well that was a short trip. I created a 45x45 PNG icon and called it iphone-icon.png (I took it from my gravatar image). I saved that file to my theme's directory.

   In my theme's header.php, before the </head> I added this one line:

   <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/iphone-icon.png" />

   Then on my iphone I just bookmarked it to my home screen. Works like a charm.

5. reevo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey, fantastic jdembowski. Thanks very much for the instructions; worked a treat.

6. thinkadrian
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I can't get it to work, I've applied the correct path, but still no cigarr... :(

   Any tips on what to NOT do?

   http://www.trendgiveafuck.com

7. 50centHAT
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Tried that but it did not seem to work.

   I put it in my Header.php file as you suggested.
   Any help would be appreciated.

8. jdembowski
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   What's the link to your blog? That would help sort it out.

9. gimsal
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I made a stupid mistake, which may be of value to someone else--

   I have a plugin installed to provide a special iphone/touch/mobile them for such browsers. I was inserting the code into header.php via the dashboard to my main theme. Of course, that never comes up when accessing the site via iphone, hence no icon.

   I found the iphone's header.php by digging around in my plugins directory (there are several iphone plugins out there, so you'll have to look).

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