ITB 076 What is a favicon?

What is a favicon?

1.an icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in
a browser's address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark
list.



What does that mean?

Think about when you have Google Chrome or Firefox or whatever you
browser that you use open and you have a lot of tabs open. It can
be a challenge to find a specific website but you recognize that
little icon of the site or company, so you know which tab to click
on. This is what it is and an example of why you want to have
one.

Tips on Favicons:

The image should be square.
In most cases the image needs to a .ico (icon file)
The size of the favicon is 16 x 16 pixels

How to turn a png image into an ico image?
There is a free online conversion tool called Convertico:
http://www.convertico.com/ The link is in the show notes.
There is also a tool that will convert a jpg file that I will link
to in the show notes: http://icoconvert.com/

How to add a Favicon:

Your theme may have a way for you to easily add a Favicon, so look
for that first.

If that is not an option then you can doing a complicated ftp
upload or you can use a fairly new WordPress Plugin called All in
One Favicon. Currently this plugin is being run on over 200,000
sites so that is a good sign. Now if you use this plugin I want to
note that you will see a warning that this plugin has not been
updated in over 2 years. However, I just read some great and recent
reviews on the plugin, so I would still give it a shot. Sometimes
plugins just work and don’t need a lot of maintenance.

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