Title: favicon problems Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # favicon problems * Resolved [wazz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wazz/) * (@wazz) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/) * I have searched the forums for help on this issue with no luck. * I uploaded a file favicon.ico to the root directory. When I try to go to [http://www.juxtaexposed.com/favicon.ico](http://www.juxtaexposed.com/favicon.ico) it gives me an error message: The image “http://www.juxtaexposed.com/favicon. ico” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. * Why is this? I can’t get my favicon to show up because of this. Any suggestions? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [homeycomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/homeycomb/) * (@homeycomb) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684708) * a file, favicon.ico ?? what kind of file. a .ico file, one that IS actually is one? You cant rename a .gif to an .ico for instance. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684709) * I don’t think there is reason to add /favicon.ico to the URI you list above.You are asking your browser to open the icon file. [http://www.juxtaexposed.com](http://www.juxtaexposed.com) works just fine, but you are correct, I don’t see a favicon. * Make sure your favicon is the correct size and that your header.php contains the favicon information. * Take a look [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/favicon.ico). * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684713) * Check your source… see the slash in “/favicon.ico” ? * `` * Should that be there? * [homeycomb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/homeycomb/) * (@homeycomb) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684719) * thats not the issue clayton, the icon is generating an error, most likely because its NOT an ico file. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684722) * Probably 🙂 just statin’ the obvious. he has it working now, anyhow. * Thread Starter [wazz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wazz/) * (@wazz) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684723) * thanks for the quick feedback everyone! it is working now. * the problem was indeed that it was not properly saved as an .ico file… somehow the photoshop plugin i used to make that file did not work. but i converted it using the site that you linked above and it works now. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684725) * Looks good now! Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘favicon problems’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/favicon-problems/#post-684725) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics