Unable to add apple-touch-icon

fijisunshine
(@fijisunshine)

1 year, 7 months ago
Great theme!

The favicon on my site works great. But I’m having trouble adding an apple-touch-icon to <head>:

<link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”https://www.example.com/example_folder/example.png” />

If I add this code to header.php in the <head>, the code is removed by WordPress and it isn’t shown to the user, i.e. in view-source on the website, the code is not there.

If I add this code to functions.php for use with wp_head, the code is again removed by WordPress and it isn’t shown to the user:
```
add_action( 'wp_head' ...
```
Would you mind explaining how to add an apple-touch-icon to the website when using Sydney? Thank you

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Kharis Sulistiyono
(@kharisblank)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi @fijisunshine,

Adding custom code to theme’s files is not recommended as they will be wiped out once theme updated.

I’d suggest using additional plugin like code snippets instead. Try searching with this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/code+snippets/

Thread Starter fijisunshine
(@fijisunshine)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi Kharis,

Thank you for your reply. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I’m editing header.php and functions.php in the child theme with Sydney as the parent theme. So, the custom code won’t be wiped out when Sydney is updated.

Would you mind explaining how to add an apple-touch-icon to the website using the child theme? Thank you

Kharis Sulistiyono
(@kharisblank)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi @fijisunshine,

Suggesting working code requires debugging, which considered not scope of theme support we could provide.

The efficient way you may want to try is using a plugin. Try searching at https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/favicon+apple/

Thread Starter fijisunshine
(@fijisunshine)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi Kharis,

Thank you for your reply. Would you mind confirming that the Sydney theme wouldn’t be removing the <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”https://www.example.com/example_folder/example.png”/> in <head>?

In other words, do you believe this issue is being caused by something else (i.e. not the Sydney theme)? Thanks again

Kharis Sulistiyono
(@kharisblank)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hi @fijisunshine,

Sorry for the delay.

If that code is not added directly to Sydney theme’s file, I believe it remains there, even after theme update.

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