Adding icon links

To make our theme more easily portable, we need to add links for the favicon.ico and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png files in the head.php template file:

  1. Open the head.php file in the templates folder.
    Adding icon links
  2. Add links to our favicon.ico and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png files using the WordPress PHP function get_template_directory_uri() to begin the file path. Then, reach into our ico folder inside the assets folder for the files shown as follows:
    <!-- Icons --> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/assets/ico/favicon.ico"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ...

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