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I have been looking at guides on who to install a favicon for my forum, but none of them work. How do I get a favicon? I have a 16x16 image already, but how do I put it into effect?

Name it favicon.ico and upload it to your forum root.

You might need to wait a few hours for it to cache but it will show eventually.

Thanks, it worked.

Is there a need to add this:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="path to icon/favicon.ico" />

as seen in another forum for mybb templates:

1. Go to Admin CP > Templates & Style > Templates > Your Theme Templates > Ungrouped Templates > header include
2. Add the above code to the top of the headerinclude code

I have added the .ico file to the root like you mentioned, cleared cache but yet to see the favicon appear. Wondering if the above will fix or i just need to wait longer.

^ it is better to add the code in headerinclude template

(2014-01-03, 02:09 AM)mkmybb Wrote: [ -> ]Is there a need to add this:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="path to icon/favicon.ico" />

as seen in another forum for mybb templates:

1. Go to Admin CP > Templates & Style > Templates > Your Theme Templates > Ungrouped Templates > header include
2. Add the above code to the top of the headerinclude code

I have added the .ico file to the root like you mentioned, cleared cache but yet to see the favicon appear. Wondering if the above will fix or i just need to wait longer.

There's no need to add that. Browsers will automatically detect it.

If you want your Favicon to show on Internet Explorer and Chrome then use this code!!!!!!!!!!!

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />