Comments on: Blog tips – Embedding videos http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/ Start 'em up Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: JAS http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1129 JAS Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:28:35 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1129 the " character didn't come through in that last message - it has to be the unslanted doublequote to work - go figure - is what I was trying to say! the ” character didn’t come through in that last message – it has to be the unslanted doublequote to work – go figure – is what I was trying to say!

]]> By: JAS http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 JAS Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:25:51 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1128 EUREKA!! With a little bit of tweaking that did it!! The code that worked was: link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://(my site)/wp-content/themes/intense-10/img/favicon.ico" And the final trick was that I had to make sure I had " characters in the string instead of ” characters because those are different hex codes. Thank you, thank you, thank you - if you were here, I'd give you a big ol' hug - this has been bugging me since I put my blog up! :-) EUREKA!! With a little bit of tweaking that did it!! The code that worked was:

link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://(my site)/wp-content/themes/intense-10/img/favicon.ico”

And the final trick was that I had to make sure I had ” characters in the string instead of ” characters because those are different hex codes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you – if you were here, I’d give you a big ol’ hug – this has been bugging me since I put my blog up! :-)

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 lex Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:47:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1114 I took another look at your site, JAS, and I think that last bit of advice - to hard-code the url - might work. Unlike mine, your "view source" reveals that the .php call to your images directory didn't work. It still shows the following code: link rel=”icon” href=”< ?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/favicon.ico” / I took another look at your site, JAS, and I think that last bit of advice – to hard-code the url – might work. Unlike mine, your “view source” reveals that the .php call to your images directory didn’t work. It still shows the following code:

link rel=”icon” href=”< ?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/favicon.ico” /

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 lex Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:33:23 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1113 JAS, you're at the utter reaches of my html knowledge, sorry. I'm only a muddler, but it seems to me that it should work. What browser are you using? Can you see the favicon star on my main blog? If the answer is that you can, then I'm about tapped out, athough you can try to modify the header.php to read thus: link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://(yoursite)/wp-content/themes/(yourtheme)/images/favicon.ico" With the text inside the () parens replaced by your url and theme name, obviously. That's the way mine reads on right-click "view source" which takes the "?php bloginfo('template_directory'); " call out of play. If that doesn't work, you might want to see if you can leave a note at the site of whomever architected your theme. Good luck! JAS, you’re at the utter reaches of my html knowledge, sorry. I’m only a muddler, but it seems to me that it should work. What browser are you using? Can you see the favicon star on my main blog?

If the answer is that you can, then I’m about tapped out, athough you can try to modify the header.php to read thus:

link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://(yoursite)/wp-content/themes/(yourtheme)/images/favicon.ico”

With the text inside the () parens replaced by your url and theme name, obviously.

That’s the way mine reads on right-click “view source” which takes the “?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ” call out of play.

If that doesn’t work, you might want to see if you can leave a note at the site of whomever architected your theme.

Good luck!

]]> By: JAS http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 JAS Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:39:39 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1089 I'm still not doing this right. I know the favicon.ico graphic works fine, because I tested it out on my html website, so at least that part is correct. I have the exact line you gave now in the header.php. Inside the wp-content/themes subdirectory I have my theme subdirectory, intense-10. That has a subdirectory called img. I altered the code line to be link rel=”icon” href=”/img/favicon.ico” / with no joy. I've copied the favicon.ico file into the theme subdirectory, intense-10, and then into every subdirectory under that - still no joy. What am I messing up? *sigh* Here's what I currently have in my header.php (with the "" tags removed so you can see it: link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="" / link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="" / link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="" / link rel=”icon” href=”/img/favicon.ico” / link rel="pingback" href="" / I’m still not doing this right. I know the favicon.ico graphic works fine, because I tested it out on my html website, so at least that part is correct.

I have the exact line you gave now in the header.php. Inside the wp-content/themes subdirectory I have my theme subdirectory, intense-10. That has a subdirectory called img. I altered the code line to be

link rel=”icon” href=”/img/favicon.ico” /

with no joy. I’ve copied the favicon.ico file into the theme subdirectory, intense-10, and then into every subdirectory under that – still no joy.

What am I messing up?

*sigh*

Here’s what I currently have in my header.php (with the “” tags removed so you can see it:

link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”" /
link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”" /
link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”" /
link rel=”icon” href=”/img/favicon.ico” /
link rel=”pingback” href=”" /

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 lex Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:08:52 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1026 I can't see into your stylesheet from here, but it looks like you've got a bunch of html in the header.php that looks like this (tag parens removed): link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/feed/" / Somewhere in there, insert another line that runs thus: link rel="icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/favicon.ico" / With the tag parens "<" and ">" at either end. Then, go into your "Images" folder inside the wp-content/themes subdirectory and insert the favicon.ico or favicon.png file (whichever you end up using, just be consistent with the html) and you should be good to go. More <a href="http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/favicon.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Good luck! I can’t see into your stylesheet from here, but it looks like you’ve got a bunch of html in the header.php that looks like this (tag parens removed):

link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”http://michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/blog/feed/” /

Somewhere in there, insert another line that runs thus:

link rel=”icon” href=”< ?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/favicon.ico” /

With the tag parens “< " and ">” at either end.

Then, go into your “Images” folder inside the wp-content/themes subdirectory and insert the favicon.ico or favicon.png file (whichever you end up using, just be consistent with the html) and you should be good to go.

More here.

Good luck!

]]> By: JAS http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1024 JAS Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:53:26 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1024 It helps - kinda - in telling me that I'm still lost! ;-) The blog is in WordPress - but none of the files contain any reference to favicon.ico. I've created favicon.ico files before, for my regular website, but I'm not sure where I should put the call for the file - in the CSS? Or in the header.php file? I've done this with html by putting [link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"] inside of the head tags, but I have no idea where to put the equivalent in the WordPress files, or how it should be coded! Help me, Obi-Lex Kanobi, you're my only hope! It helps – kinda – in telling me that I’m still lost! ;-) The blog is in WordPress – but none of the files contain any reference to favicon.ico. I’ve created favicon.ico files before, for my regular website, but I’m not sure where I should put the call for the file – in the CSS? Or in the header.php file? I’ve done this with html by putting [link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"] inside of the head tags, but I have no idea where to put the equivalent in the WordPress files, or how it should be coded! Help me, Obi-Lex Kanobi, you’re my only hope!

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 lex Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:43:08 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1021 Is it a WordPress blog? If so, somewhere in the header.php or stylesheet (style.css) you'll probably be able to find a pre-existing file labeled favicon.ico All you need to do is find something you'd prefer to put in there, save it as a 16x16 px visual file using either a Windows .ico editor or a .png file (in Photoshop or Photoshop elements), uploading it using your ftp app to the "Images folder" in your overall theme folder (or wherever it is that the previous favicon is stashed) and overwrite with the new file. If your previous favicon file ended with a ".ico" suffix, and you don't have an icon editor, then you'll have to go back into the stylesheet and find out where the favicon.ico is called out and change the request to your favicon.png Does that help at all? Is it a WordPress blog? If so, somewhere in the header.php or stylesheet (style.css) you’ll probably be able to find a pre-existing file labeled favicon.ico

All you need to do is find something you’d prefer to put in there, save it as a 16×16 px visual file using either a Windows .ico editor or a .png file (in Photoshop or Photoshop elements), uploading it using your ftp app to the “Images folder” in your overall theme folder (or wherever it is that the previous favicon is stashed) and overwrite with the new file.

If your previous favicon file ended with a “.ico” suffix, and you don’t have an icon editor, then you’ll have to go back into the stylesheet and find out where the favicon.ico is called out and change the request to your favicon.png

Does that help at all?

]]> By: JAS http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 JAS Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:22:39 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/Wiki/2007/03/18/blog-tips-embedding-videos/#comment-1020 Thanks - was just wondering how to do that on my own blog. I'm stuck on figuring out how to get a favicon to show in a wordpress page... where the heck am I supposed to drop the favicon.ico in the directory structure so wordpress finds it? Thanks – was just wondering how to do that on my own blog. I’m stuck on figuring out how to get a favicon to show in a wordpress page… where the heck am I supposed to drop the favicon.ico in the directory structure so wordpress finds it?

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