{"id":4489,"date":"2011-02-26T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2012-12-31T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T11:27:00","slug":"favicons-apple-touch-icons-site-thumbnail-images-and-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"FavIcons, Apple Touch Icons, Site Thumbnail Images, and WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While someone somewhere has surely written a nice clean, unified explanation on associating <code>favicon<\/code>s, Apple Touch icons, and site thumbnail images with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> &#39;blogs, I've not seen it; and, when it comes to supporting site thumbnail images in <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Using_Themes\">WordPress themes<\/a>, I <em>have<\/em> seen an awful lot of discussion that is unclear, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/\"><abbr title=\"Personal Home Pages Hypertext Processor\">PHP<\/abbr><\/a> code that is inflexible, breakable, or already broken.  Perhaps I'm now about to contribute <em>to the problem<\/em>, but I'm here going to make my own attempt at discussion.<\/p> <p>&#91;This entry was written at the suggestion of <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a>, but she's really not to blame for how it turned-out.&#93;<\/p> <h3><a href=\"?page_id=4400\">FavIcons, Apple Touch Icons, and Site Thumbnail Images<\/a><\/h3>  <p>First, <a href=\"?page_id=4400\">I'll try to explain the r&ocirc;les and invocations of these images without peculiar reference to WordPress  or to <abbr title=\"Personal Home Pages Hypertext Processor\">PHP<\/abbr>.<\/a><\/p> <h3><a href=\"?page_id=4424\">Working Code and How to Use It<\/a><\/h3> <p>I think that a great many people are just going to want <a href=\"?page_id=4424\">code that they can drop into a theme<\/a>, and a practical explanation of how to use that code, so I'll provide <a href=\"?page_id=4424\">such code, with an explanation of how to use it<\/a>.<\/p> <h3><a href=\"?page_id=4479\">PHP and WordPress Coding Issues<\/a><\/h3> <p>A few hardy or lost souls are going to want to know <a href=\"?page_id=4479\">what motivated that code, how it actually does what it does, or what I see might be done differently<\/a>. (Some of them might do a rather better job than have I.) For those readers, I have prepared <a href=\"?page_id=4479\">a very boring discussion<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While someone somewhere has surely written a nice clean, unified explanation on associating favicons, Apple Touch icons, and site thumbnail images with WordPress &#39;blogs, I've not seen it; and, when it comes to supporting site thumbnail images in WordPress themes, I have seen an awful lot of discussion that is unclear, and PHP code that [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[950,948,949,955,146,115,953,952,954,951,13],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-apple-touch-icon","tag-favicon","tag-favicons","tag-featured-images","tag-html","tag-php","tag-search-link-graphics","tag-site-thumbnail-graphics","tag-site-thumbnail-images","tag-webclip-icon","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}