Favicon / Site Icon Issue

  • Paul.M

    #10605

    It seems that since I updated my WordPress to the newest version (4.7.1) my site icon has stopped appearing on the front end and only displays the WordPress “W”. It still displays on the back end however. Is there something I can edit in the code to fix this issue, or would this just be a bug? For information’s sake I am using the recommended size of 512 x 512 and it is a png file.

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    Syahir Hakim

    #46497

    Hi Paul,

    Please provide a link to your site so that we can investigate further.

    Paul.M

    #46498

    Absolutely. My website is: http://beats4freaks.ca

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    Kenneth John Odle

    #46499

    I am seeing this as your favicon:

    http://beats4freaks.ca/favicon.ico

    Paul.M

    #46500

    It’s definitely not supposed to be that. In the theme customizer I have it set to cropped-Spiral-FaviconFinal.png

    Like I said, it shows up properly on the back end of my site but when I view the front end it shows that WordPress “W”.

    Is there a way to manually change it then?

    Admin

    Syahir Hakim

    #46501

    Try setting it in Graphene Options > Display > Miscellaneous > Favicon URL.

    Paul.M

    #46502

    Okay, I tried setting the favicon that way (Graphene Options > Display > Miscellaneous > Favicon URL), but it still just shows the WordPress “W” on my site. I tried it through the link that says “upload or select image from gallery” and I also tried manually inserting the URL. As well I tried a couple different file formats (.jpeg, .png) all with the same negative results.

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    Syahir Hakim

    #46503

    You’ve done it correctly. However, browsers such as Chrome do cache favicons for sites, so you may not see them updated immediately. Here’s the favicon I see for your site using IE:

    qI4KSWX.png

    Paul.M

    #46504

    Yes, I ended up having to manually upload the image through my cpanel and then added a bit of code in the header to manually fetch it.

    thanks for your help though.

    Oliver067

    #50283

    App Icons are the images you press on your smartphone to launch an application. As newer phones are released with higher resolution screens, higher resolution app icons are needed. Developers still want to maintain support for the older phones with lower resolution so when you create an app icon you need to create several size variations of the same image. This is true for all smartphones like the iPhone and Android, and even tablets like iPad prepaidgiftbalance.

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