Help adding a favicon

  • URL: shebloggedbynight.com
    Theme: Brunelleschi

    I have a favicon created and saved in my root directory. It didn’t show up — actually NO favicon showed up, not even the default WordPress W — so I tried Shockingly Simple Favicon. That didn’t work either. I searched help forums and found this code:

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://s.www.ads-software.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"/>
<link rel="icon" href="https://s.www.ads-software.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-ico"/>

    Plonked it into my header.php — the ORIGINAL file, not in the child directory, because making my own header.php file resulted in errors. With the change to the original header.php file, I get the default WordPress W. From there I tried Shockingly Simple Favicon again and it didn’t work. Have tried other plugins like Favicon My Blog but with no luck.

    The only thing that works is replacing the www.ads-software.com URL in the above code with the URL for where my favicon is. But I don’t like doing that since the only way I can get that is by editing the original header.php file.

    Can someone help me with this so I can get a favicon without editing the original header.php? Or is it okay if I edit the original header.php? I don’t think it is okay, but otherwise I am absolutely stuck at this point and REALLY need some help. Thanks!

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  • Have you tried using this method –https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Favicon? I am using the Brunelleschi theme, too, and did this yesterday (after much trial and error) and it worked. Make sure the image you are using is actually named favicon.ico. (I had a blond moment and tried using an image named favicon2.ico the first time around.)

    I play it safe when it comes to editing anything (because quite frankly I am pretty ditzy) and always copy and paste the original in a notepad (plain text) file in case what I am doing screws it up (which happens embarrassingly often). When I messed up, I just copy and paste the original right back in.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter sbbn

    (@sbbn)

    Oh yes, I tried the instructions there first thing. I followed everything to the letter with no luck. Eventually Favicon My Blog worked (I can’t remember now what I used to get it to work) but I was noticing someone trying to hack into my blog through that particular add-on last week, so I removed Favicon My Blog.

    Now that I’ve added more security, I may try that add-on again.

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