Title: .ico Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # .ico * Resolved [androgiennei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/androgiennei/) * (@androgiennei) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/) * i am using a template whuch has an favicon.ico that is nice, but i would like to change it… i tried adding another .ico and referring to it in the header script- no luck; i even tried switching around the names of the files just to see if the file name has to be favicon.ico- no luck… and when i say ” no luck” i mean that the small icon does not change at all… * is there a way to get around this?? * some background: i am using the audyasha template and my blogsite is [http://www.androgiennei.com](http://www.androgiennei.com)( so you can see the ittybitty icon in the address bar of your window)… Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/) * (@niziol) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334346) * I recall I had some issues with the favicon at first, this was quite awhile ago, but it seemed IE had issues with this for quite sometime and it still does. You may wish to clear your broswer cache and try that. As far as I know, you can only have 1 favicon and it should be in the root folder of the site. I see a yellow one with some red on it, I’m not sure if that’s the one or not. * There is only one icon referenced in your stylesheet, so I’m not sure what else I can tell you. * Cheers, Michael. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334351) * I *think* they only work “right” in IE if the user bookmarks the page…. * [I could easily be wrong; I don’t EVER access the ‘net with IE….] * [fruitfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfly/) * (@fruitfly) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334374) * Favicons hardly ever work “right” with IE 6 or lower. Though I’ve been playing with IE7 Beta, and things are looking better… I’d be impressed if it wasn’t for the fact that IE is only doing what FF has been doing alredy. 🙂 * I’ve had problems with updating favicons – the problem seems to be that the old one just won’t go away… but when I view from a different computer, the new one is there. I’m not sure what goes on that causes this… but usually after a restart of my computer, the new one shows up. * Something to do with how XP handles .ico files is my best guess. * [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/) * (@niziol) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334377) * I think vkaryl is right, but IE being what it is, seems to do whatever it feels like, I remember when I was trying to get the favicon to work last year, I was still using IE and it drove me MAD, it does it sometimes and not others. * If we all spoke Latin, wore toga’s and used Firefox, the world would be a better place! * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334381) * *laughing* Oh THERE you go! A recipe for love and peace…. My daughter uses IE, and she’s noted that on her setup (means not every setup will be like it, y’know!) favicons only appear if it’s a site she has bookmarked…. and they do seem to not work at odd times. * Thread Starter [androgiennei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/androgiennei/) * (@androgiennei) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334603) * hey thanks for the responses… but guess what… my favicon worked… i guess it needed at full day to activate… wad’up with that? * [Buz Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carterco/) * (@carterco) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334606) * Pile! * You’re all correct, especially about IE’s shortcomings wrt favicons. * IE’s caching means that even after rebooting *sometimes* your icon will not update. * Just have to live with that. * and yes, firefox is a (much^3) better measure of what others who don’t have a cached-icon-encumbered browser would see. * one measure some site stats packages (such as AWStats) use is estimating the number of people who “favorite” (bookmark) your site using the proportion of IE visitors whose browser requests the fav icon. But this is an upper limit given the buggy nature of IE’s implementation. So, even assuming that since 10% of your IE visitors bookmarked you means 10% of all visitors do so is iffy, since that 10% is in doubt. * definitely a ballpark guesstimate. but OK for following trends, not quantitative analysis. * annoying, huh? * um “take back the web”??? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘.ico’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Buz Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carterco/) * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ico/#post-334606) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics