Jennie_F
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi everybody,
I am new to this forum and know absolutely NOTHING about html or xhtml. Actually I am more than happy that I know where the power-button is on my computer (you get the picture). I just created my own website with the elegant grunge theme (www.jennifer-fidder.com). Now I want to add a favicon to my site. I already found a converter that helped me create an ico-file which I uploaded to my website. Then the site told me to add <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> right behind <head> in the html.
The only <head> I found in the eelegant grunge theme is under header.php and it says: <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">. So I inserted the <link.... one line under this, but nothing happened.
Can anybody help me with this problem or tell me what I did wrong?
Thanks in advance
Jennie
Okay… your a noob, and possible a troglodyte. Point made.
Did you try googling what you want to do?
I found tons of sites that explain this step by step. I recommend the WordPress codex.
Jennie_F
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Well, that's how I found out how to create a favicon, how to upload it and so on. But it still doesn't work. So I must have done something wrong. I think I probably uploaded the favicon in the wrong place. I uploaded it to "media". The wordpress codex says I should upload the favicon in my "current theme’s main folder" and also upload a copy of it "to the main directory of my site". I have no idea what my current theme's main folder is or where to find it (the wordpress explanation doesn't help). Neither do I know how to upload something to the main directory of my site. This is all totally new to me.
Jennie_F
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
okay, I got it. But what I did now was to copy the path where I uploaded my favicon to this <link rel="shortcut ico" href....-thing. That still didn't work, so I just renamed my favicon.ico file to favicon.jpg and all of a sudden it works. Now it looks like this: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.jennifer-fidder.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/favicon.jpg" mce_href="http://www.jennifer-fidder.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/favicon.jpg/>
So for some reason it seems that the elegant grunge theme I am working with (or what ever) doesn't accept favicons.
Do you think that is okay now? Or is there any reason why I shouldn't have renamed the file to a jpg? Why do I have to do this whole converting-thing anyway, when it also works with a jpg-file?
Thanks again for your help and sorry for the stupid questions.
Jennie with Firefox a link to a .jpg will show as a favicon in the addy bar and on the tab. Like this example and that is why you were able to change the .ico to a .jpg and have it show.
I didnt use a plug in or add code, I uploaded to and it shows.
This was a .gif and I just renamed it to .ico and it shows as animated.
Internet Explorer handles favicons differently and that would be why you would need a plug in to have it show in IE.
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