Favicon gives website a professional look. Most of the reputed websites use facicon and its displayed in browser as below:
Another reason for adding favicon is that it makes your website more trsutful. Adding favicon in WordPress is very easy.
Step#1 Decide the Favicon
Favicon can be logo, character or any image that would be your websites identity. Mostly favicons are websites logo.
Step#2 Upload favicon to WordPress website
Go to Appearance–> Customise–>Site Identity
Here, click on Change image, select whichever image you have finalised in Step#1 and click on Publish.
Thats all, you websites favicon/identity is updated
Troubleshooting:
Even after publishing favicon was not getting updated for me.I opened website in another tab, still issue persisted. To refresh favicon follow following steps
- Hover over tab
- Right Click
- Select reload
- Your favicon should now be refreshed