Give your blog a distinctive touch with a favicon in under 30 minutes by following these four easy steps.
Step 1: Create or choose your image
You can either create a 16 x 16 pixel file yourself in photoshop or paint.NET, or use a free icon from somewhere on the web.
I found the ones I’ve used on my blogs at Very Icon.
Step 2: Convert your image
Use one of the below online favicon generators, and save your favicon to your computer.
Step 3: Upload your favicon
Using either your website’s cPanel interface or FTP software like CoreFTP, upload favicon.ico to the main folder of the WordPress theme you’re currently using.
Step 4: Insert the code
Open your theme’s header.php file & insert the following line of code somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />
View your blog & refresh the page.
All done!
Need more help?
Check out the in-depth info on Favicons at the WordPress Codex, or tweet me.

A large number of WordPress 2.7 users have had to make do with using the much slower browser uploader because they have had no “select files” button.
If you’re one of these people (and I was), then breathe easy because it’s not a Flash problem and it’s not WordPress 2.7 (at least, not directly).
For some reason, those that used the automatic upgrade option missed out on a single file, called “swfupload.swf”, and therein lies the problem.
The solution, thanks to fryewiles in the WordPress.org forum, is to simply upload the missing file to the appropriate folder on your server:
/wp-includes/js/swfupload/
You can find a copy of the file by downloading the latest copy of WordPress, unzipping it on your hard drive and going to the folder above.
Then upload the file, either using your hosting cPanel or by FTP with software like Core FTP.
A very sincere thank you to fryewiles for solving this problem for us all.
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