How to add a Site Icon (Favicon) to WordPress 2024

Quick and Easy Tutorial on how to add a Site Icon aka Favicon to your WordPress website.

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[AdamWagner-qyje]

Great point, Alex! It's always essential to have a favicon when creating a new website.

[ahmedshah]

The favicon was previously visible in Google search results, but after installing the LiteSpeed Cache plugin and Cloudflare, it seems to have disappeared. Could either of these changes be responsible for the issue?

[infiniteintrust]

My site Icon is not showing in Google search results !!!
Wordpress supports 512*512
Google say this (Your favicon must be a multiple of 48px square, for example: 48x48px, 96x96px, 144x144px and so on (or SVG with a 1:1 (square) aspect ratio).
Can you explain whats the problem ?

[uzencarl]

so how long does it take to also change when I search for my website in google

[Andrew-C-Witham]

Adding a favicon might not be the biggest or most urgent issue that you are concentrating on with a new but its a quality factor thats easy to achieve. So I put it in the bracket of tings I don't need to analyse... just do it.

[ritaserraa]

I dont know why when I click on change site icon settings the link doesn't open anything. Not sure what else to do.