custom favicons?

[ZappoMan]

has anyone written a plugin or seen a plugin that lets users set their own favicons for their blog?

I can imagine how I'd write this... but if someone has one done already, that would be cool.

[drmike]

We talked about this once a long while ago when Andrew first came out with his blog avatar plugin.  The idea was to take the uploaded blog avatar and change it into a favicon at the same time it made all those different sized avatars.  The issue was there's no function in php to actually create an icon file although some browsers would support a (I believe it was) *.png as a favicon.

The discussion didn't do any further than that.

[ZappoMan]

That's way more fancy than I need... I just want the simple, if you have a favicon.ico you can upload it and we'll serve it for you...

right now favicon.ico is served from the core in the wordpress(mu) root directory...

If I get around to it, I'll probably just hook the url in php and serve up a file from an alternate location.

[drmike]

Really?  I always though that was the easy way out.  Use the upload that's already there.  Just create anothe rimage where you;re already creating 4 or 5 of them.  You probably would have to rewrite the header.php's of all of your themes and change over the line that actually serves the favicon but you would probably have to do that with any solution since usually the favicon is already hardcoded into the theme.

Could just write a simple admin plugin with a single line form and tell your endusers to put the url of the favicon into that and serve that infor in the header.php.

[Andrea_R]

Ah, I remember James asking about this somewhere...

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blog-icons/

There's two to pick from.

[drmike]

ANyone know if either on eof those have issues with mu?

[drmike]

My concern with this is that if you use the premium's blog and user avatar plugins, this make a total of three avatars now that endusers have to keep track of.

[Andrea_R]

The issue was there's no function in php to actually create an icon file although some browsers would support a (I believe it was) *.png as a favicon.

If you rename a .jpg as a .ico, it works.

[drmike]

So convert from *.png to *.jpg and then just rename?

I believe there's a function call that can do the conversion.

thanks

[Andrea_R]

I've been making favicons from jpg's directly, so not sure.

But yeah, that'd probably work.

[Luke]

That's cheating...

I had to get a Photoshop plugin for those dumb things. lol

[drmike]

I'll have to try that on the testbed then. 

Or should we just allow a separate upload for favicons?  Have to admit that since the blog avatar is a lot bigger than an favicon, chances are it's not going to come out too well.

[Andrea_R]

Yeah, I'd allow it separate. For one, it;s tiny. For the other, less people are going to know what the heck it is.