How to change your favicon in WordPress: A Simple Guide

Have you noticed that small symbol appearing beside your website's link in Google search results? These icons, known as favicons, are displayed on both mobile and desktop searches. Don't overlook this detail; your website should have a well-designed favicon. Fortunately, setting one up in WordPress is straightforward. In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of changing the favicon for your WordPress site!

Changing your favicon in WordPress

Now, we'll provide you with a straightforward, step-by-step guide on how to change your WordPress favicon. In WordPress, the favicon is referred to as a "site icon" and can be added within the "customize theme" section.

1. Log in to your WordPress website.
When you’re logged in, you’ll be in your ‘Dashboard’:

2. Hover your mouse to ‘Appearance’

3. Click the Customize

4. Click ‘Site Identity’

5. Add your favicon under ‘Site Icon’.

A couple of points to remember about favicons

Remember that Google has specific guidelines for displaying your favicons in search results:

In Google Search, each website is limited to one favicon, determined by its hostname. Therefore, https://www.example.com/ and https://news.example.com/ can have their individual favicons. However, https://www.example.com/sub-site, being a subdirectory, shares the main site's favicon.

Guidelines for favicons comprise:

- Only one favicon permitted for the main site and its subdirectories.

- Favicons must be reachable by Googlebot and Googlebot-Image.

- Your favicon should faithfully reflect your site’s brand.

- Favicons are ideally sized in multiples of 48px square, with SVGs offering flexibility in size.

- Maintain consistency in your favicon URL.

- Google replaces inappropriate favicons, such as those containing explicit or hateful imagery, with a default icon.

Some related content might help you:
https://wordpress.com/support/site-icons/

https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/hosting/blogs/adding-favicons-in-wordpress/



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