elegant grunge theme favicon

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.

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.

Yepp, doing things wrong is how I learn too.

WordPress Themes live in subdirectories residing in wp-content/themes/.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+where+your+theme+lives&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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=”https://www.jennifer-fidder.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/favicon.jpg&#8221; mce_href=”https://www.jennifer-fidder.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/favicon.jpg/&gt;

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.

I used a plug in ??

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/favicons/

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.