Easily add a custom favicon and Apple touch icon to your WordPress site, including support for dark mode, SVG icons, and admin dashboard branding.
As of April 2026, Custom Favicon is a WordPress icon plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 92K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Downloads are down 6% this week. Top alternative: Font Awesome.
Custom Favicon lets you upload and manage favicons for your WordPress website, admin area, and login screen using the native media uploader. Unlike the built-in Site Icon feature, this plugin gives you full control — including support for separate frontend and backend icons, Apple touch icons, dark mode icons, and SVG format.
Features include:
– Upload custom favicon for frontend (browser tab icon)
– Upload separate favicon for WordPress Dashboard and login page
– Upload Apple touch icons for iOS devices
– Upload dark mode specific favicon
– SVG favicon support
– Option to disable default WordPress Site Icon output
– Clean and simple settings page under Settings → Custom Favicon
This plugin is useful for:
– Replacing the default WordPress fa…
I really like that plugin. It is not only imazing to give you required result, but they fivicon look great also.
Love this plugin.
Thank you for such a great job.
i like this!
this plugin work on pages and dashboard
works fine for my page, thanks!
Does exactly what it’s supposed to do
After long searching, this is the custom favicon plugin that just works plain and simple.
Thanks !
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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