Thank you for your feedback!
There is one thing you can do: use the favicon checker to make sure your icons are setup correctly. The checker accesses your site like a regular visitor, so it gives a trustworthy feedback.
Yes, putting, files in root is still recommended, although this is a nice-to-have, not a huge must-have. This avoids the kind of errors you noticed with apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png (okay, this file is not generated yet by RFG, but it will) and other icons.
Actually the plugin does its best to follow this recommendation. After it puts icons in /wp-content/uploads/fbrfg (eg. favicon.ico is accessible at www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/fbrfg/favicon.ico), it uses the Rewrite API to expose all these files as if they were in the root directory (eg. favicon.ico is also accessible via www.example.com/favicon.ico). This is the mechanism WP uses to forge readable, customizable post URLs.
However, this mechanism can fail for a number of reasons. For example, many security plugins forbid this operation. So RFG’s plugin is “best effort” here. And it doesn’t provide much information to the admin about this because my feeling is that this information would be more confusing than helpful.
But you can try it by yourself: does www.yourbloghere.com/favicon.ico works for you? If not, no worry, this is definitely not an issue, really.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now the thing is a little clearer. It would be nice, if all settings to generate the favicon are stored.
BTW: The most searched favicon is:
apple-touch-icon-120×120-precomposed.png
but the following are currently also searched:
apple-touch-icon-152×152-precomposed.png
apple-touch-icon-76×76-precomposed.png
What do you mean by “all settings to generate the favicon are stored” ?
I was already aware of the 120×120, 152×152 and 76×76 precomposed icons. It’s a TODO 🙂 https://github.com/RealFaviconGenerator/realfavicongenerator/issues/163
Every time when I generate the favicon I must choose the settings for example Theme color for other Plattforms, Background Color for Windows 8 & 10, Favicon Generator Options: Compression, Scaling Algorithm and so on.
Oh, I see. This is https://github.com/RealFaviconGenerator/realfavicongenerator/issues/192 . I’m glad to see I’m not the only one interested in it 🙂
Unfortunately, it will take time to implement this one so I’m afraid it won’t be available any soon…
Is there already something in works? B-)
thanks a lot
Unfortunately, no.
Plus I have a bunch of more urgent TODOs to address before this one so you shouldn’t expect this soon, sorry 🙁
o.k. thanks for the info and your great work!
