In case you don’t know what a favicon is:

A favicon is a little 16×16 pixel graphic next to the address of your website. For my blog, it looks like this:

These icons can be real nice and label your site, so anybody will recognize it. There are a few sites out there that don’t use Gravatars in their blog, but Favatars that will display your favicon next to your comment. In the next steps you will learn how to create and display a favicon on your WordPress blog. And additionally I will show how you display it in your backend, since your favicon will not be displayed there by default. Read on