Title: Favicons
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Favicons

 *  [witewolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/witewolf/)
 * (@witewolf)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/)
 * I am another who is having trouble with favicons not showing up. Though it does
   show up temporarily in IE, NOT Firefox, where I would like it to atay PUT! Favicon
   is uploaded to my root.
 * First, to edit the php script, do I go to my web host control panel, and presumably
   content/themes, or use wordpress theme editor? If the former, exactly which file
   do I edit please? I think it may be header.php but where?
 * And is THIS the script to add a shortcut to (based on a reply in this forum to
   a related issue)
 *  <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”[http://digital-newworld.com/blog/link/to/favicon.ico”&gt](http://digital-newworld.com/blog/link/to/favicon.ico”&gt);
 * Thank you for any help.

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 *  [webdressing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdressing/)
 * (@webdressing)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661181)
 * You shouldn’t need to mess around with any script for a Favicon to show up. You
   simply make it 16×16 or 32×32 and place it in your root directory. If it’s not
   showing up that doesn’t mean that it’s not there. Post your URL (digital-newworld.
   com?) and let others check it for you. Most of the time that Favicons don’t work
   it’s because they were placed in the wrong directory or the browser needs refreshing.
 *  [webdressing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webdressing/)
 * (@webdressing)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661182)
 * _Oops_…. almost forgot, Internet Explorer browsers (as of version 6.x) associate
   favicons with **bookmarks**. So you must first bookmark the web page. The favicon
   will appear on the browser address bar and on the Favorites menu, the **second**
   time you visit the bookmarked page. If the favicon doesn’t appear even after 
   bookmarking and revisiting the web page, clearing the cache and restarting the
   browser should help.
 *  Thread Starter [witewolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/witewolf/)
 * (@witewolf)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661309)
 * [http://digital-newworld.com/blog/](http://digital-newworld.com/blog/) is the
   site. The file is 32×32, favicno.ico, and stored in the root. It showed up yesterday
   in my sites admin, but not today, and not at all if firefox. I’ve no idea why,
   but the favicon only shows up immediately after uploading it.
 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661310)
 * [http://digital-newworld.com/favicon.ico](http://digital-newworld.com/favicon.ico)
   gives me a 404.
 * Make sure the file is in the right place on your server.
 *  Thread Starter [witewolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/witewolf/)
 * (@witewolf)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661365)
 * That’s the problem, 404. Where EXACTLY whould it be stored? At present it is 
   just uploaded to the root, after uploading it was visible, but not now. I’ve 
   tried it it many locations, same result so far.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661366)
 * The /favicon.ico is the default location. If you can’t put it there then try 
   this:
 * If you can upload the favicon.ico to a location that you control (wp-content 
   would be okay) and you can retrieve the icon via
 * `http://digital-newworld.com/blog/wp-content/favicon.ico`
 * Then you might want to try this plugin: [http://www.digitalramble.com/favicon-manager-wordpress-plugin/](http://www.digitalramble.com/favicon-manager-wordpress-plugin/)
 * I have not used it but the code looks good. It add the right favicon entries 
   into your header. You’ll need to tell it where to look but that should not be
   a problem.
 *  [Adam Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamrbrown/)
 * (@adamrbrown)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661367)
 * > Where EXACTLY whould it be stored?
 * It should be at [http://digital-newworld.com/favicon.ico](http://digital-newworld.com/favicon.ico)
 * jdembowki’s solution will work within WP, but in general, it should be available
   at that URL.
 * But it in the same directory on your server as the stuff that shows up at [http://digital-newworld.com/](http://digital-newworld.com/)
 *  Thread Starter [witewolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/witewolf/)
 * (@witewolf)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661382)
 * Thanks jdembowski, the icon show up now in IE, but still NOT Firefox! The icon
   also showed up in the wp plug in as I added it. I’ve still no idea why FF will
   not display it.
 *  Thread Starter [witewolf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/witewolf/)
 * (@witewolf)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661388)
 * I think it’s because of my blog extension. It shows up now in my root domain.
 *  [theapparatus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theapparatus/)
 * (@theapparatus)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661389)
 * You can also force it to be recognized although I would think it would not be
   needed to do so.
 * [http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html](http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html)
 * See the bit at the end of the page. You’ll have to modify your theme’s header.
   php to include teh lines of code.
 *  [Jupitercow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcow/)
 * (@jcow)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicons-2/#post-661390)
 * another trick when testing favicons in IE is to click and drag the IE Page logo
   to the right slightly a couple times until it is replaced with your favicon. 
   IE doesn’t like to show them… 🙁

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