[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16434: Give site admin ability to upload favicon in Settings, General

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#16434: Give site admin ability to upload favicon in Settings, General
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 Reporter:  jane                                 |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request                      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  3.4
Component:  Administration                       |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing ux-feedback  |
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Comment (by nacin):

 Replying to [comment:88 TomAuger]:
 > Would we consider releasing the next version with a ''default''
 WordPress favicon in place (possibly in the root directory) in .png and
 .ico format? A fallback for when you have not defined one yourself in
 Settings > General? This would also help with a lot of 404's that servers
 are getting.

 No, a few reasons: One, it is difficult to then go ahead and remove that
 file (otherwise, some browsers will still read it). Two, there's really no
 reason for a default WordPress favicon on every WP.org site out there.
 Three, it only works for root-level sites. Four, we already intercept
 root-level /favicon.ico requests early and return a zero-length
 image/vnd.microsoft.com response, so 404s are not going to end up being
 logged if external rewrite rules are in place to map everything to
 index.php. Some hosts have simply placed favicon.ico files in root
 directories to even prevent WordPress from loading in these cases, but I
 don't think that's our responsibility beyond what we already do.

 I agree that supporting ICO should be the goal. Let's just not catch
 ourselves up over it. Still need to build a working feature. :-)

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