Via the Site Identity settings in the Customizer, I can’t upload a favicon image. Site Identity != favicon image. It’s used for favicons and resized down but it’s also used in lots of other locations. E.g. it can appear in: the theme header as the logo smartphone homescreens twitter and FB previews So uploading a … Read more
How to change the WordPress email icon?
Facebook favicon appearing on my home page
The link you provided returns a 404, that seems to be the problem.
You have to delete de cache of your browser
For me its showing different on Safari and different on chrome. When I checked page source, I noticed favicon is being called thrice. Please delete other two instances and then check clearing browser cache for all browsers. I believe it should work then.
try adding type=”image/png” in the link definition. Additionally Chrome is a little bit harder to clean the favicon cache (needs also a restart) This thread can help you perhaps, there are several hints there The other thing is, I remember have read somewhere, that it is best practice to have the favicons in the root … Read more
If you have a modern theme, where you can upload a favicon with the theme customizer (rather than a hardcoded url in the header.php), you can simply use a filter. Take a look at the function get_site_icon. As you can see it returns the url of the image that you have uploaded using the customizer. … Read more
I figured out the issue. In my plugin I was calling an echo statement from a WP_Head function. This was causing the <head> tag to be immediately closed and rendered in the body. Any remaining code for the WP_Head was being output in the body, including the favicon <link> tags.
OK… as it sometimes goes i cant rest until i find a way and i found a way to get the fave icon to proeprly display using google 🙂 its really simple: // here i get my URL from my custom post type $directoryNoHttpUrl = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘directory_url’, true ); //here i clean the url … Read more