Different Favicons For Backend And Frontend

Alex — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:03:31 +0000

Do you have the same problem? We all have a lot tabs open, especially of our own blogs and all tabs look the same, since there is the same favicon for backend and frontend in your tabs. It can be annoying to click around to find the admin tab between all the opened tabs of some posts of your blog. As you can see on this screenshot:

A little hack in your functions.php of your theme can help you with this problem:

/* Different Favicon for Backend */
function favicon4admin() {
 echo '';
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'favicon4admin' );

In this case we put the admin favicon in our wp-content folder. Done!

It can be a little helpful hack for your daily work. Of course, the text in the tabs are different most of the time, but not always, and a different looking favicon is more visible.

An easy tool to create a favicon is available at dynamicdrive

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Different Favicons For Backend And Frontend