Custom Favicon – Easily Add a Favicon in WordPress
Easily add a custom favicon and Apple touch icon to your WordPress site, including support for dark mode, SVG icons, and admin dashboard branding.
5(17 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 months agoAs 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.
5/517 reviews
5.0K+active installs
92K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
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…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
It solved my issue–
by Zia Khan·9 years ago
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.
good
by morteza_aghabeighi·10 years ago
i like this!
this plugin work on pages and dashboard
works fine, thanks
by DamianS1987·10 years ago
works fine for my page, thanks!
Perfect
by SchmidtsReunite·10 years ago
Does exactly what it’s supposed to do
Works. Plain and simple
by tedocweb·10 years ago·1 reply
After long searching, this is the custom favicon plugin that just works plain and simple.
Thanks !
Download Trends
Today: 12Yesterday: 14This week: 106Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
53.0%
v1.0
47.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0 – (30 May 2025)
- Completely refactored plugin codebase to follow WordPress coding standards (PHPCS)
- Added support for dark mode favicons using
prefers-color-scheme - Added support for SVG icons
- Added
apple-touch-iconandmsapplication-TileImagemeta output - Added option to disable WordPress’s default Site Icon output
…and 5 more changes
Contributors
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