With the release of version 4.3, WordPress introduced Site Icons, which allows users to define an icon that represents their website. As often occurs, this new concept has an associated API.
This article will delve into Site Icons, beginning by defining what they are. Then, we will play with this brand new API, which is essentially composed of four functions and two filters. This doesn’t sound like much, but you'll see that it is definitely enough!
What Is a Site Icon?
Good news: if you've worked with the web for a while, then you probably already know what a Site Icon is. In fact, it is just the name WordPress has given to an icon we all know well: the favicon.
A favicon is the image displayed on the browser's tab when your website is opened. In addition, when you save a shortcut to a webpage on the home screen of your smartphone, your mobile OS uses your favicon so that the same generic icon is not displayed for every website.
Once set up, the Site Icon will also be displayed on your administration panel, which was, until now didn't have a favicon.
By defining a Site Icon, you therefore define your website's favicon. The good news is that, as a user or a theme developer, you don't have to do anything to activate the feature. In fact, the display of the Site Icon is activated by default in WordPress 4.3: the call for the right function is done when the wp_head action occurs and every theme must call this action.
This means one thing: if you want to try what we do in this article, you can do it without changing your current theme. The only thing you must do before following this tutorial is update your WordPress installation to version 4.3 (see our article about updating your WordPress installation if you haven’t already done so.
How To Define a Site Icon
Defining a new Site Icon can be achieved by using the Theme Customizer. You have two ways to access this customizer:
- By using the administration menu, the customizer is located in the ‘Appearance’ menu, with the second entry named ‘Customize’
- By hitting the ‘Customize’ button in the administration bar, which appears at the top of every page of your website once you are logged in (this button is new to WordPress 4.3)
The Theme Customizer consists of a preview of your website, with a sidebar on the left allowing you to customize some details. For the purposes of this tutorial, we're interested in the ‘Site Identity’ menu option.
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by Jérémy Heleine via SitePoint
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