I'm trying to add various favicons to a custom theme.
I've added /theme_dir/Magento_Theme/layout/default_head_blocks.xml
and within I've tried the following:
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
<head>
<!-- custom favicons -->
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="icons/apple-icon-57x57.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="icons/apple-icon-60x60.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="icons/apple-icon-72x72.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="icons/apple-icon-76x76.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="icons/apple-icon-114x114.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="icons/apple-icon-120x120.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="icons/apple-icon-144x144.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="icons/apple-icon-152x152.png"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="iconsapple-icon-180x180.png"/>
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="icons/android-icon-192x192.png"/>
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="icons/favicon-32x32.png"/>
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="96x96" href="icons/favicon-96x96.png"/>
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="icons/favicon-16x16.png"/>
<link rel="manifest" href="icons/manifest.json"/>
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#ffffff"/>
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="icons/ms-icon-144x144.png"/>
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/>
</head>
</page>
But only the meta tags are placed in the frontend html, all <link>
items are not rendered apart from the manifest, which doesn't actually give the correct link:
<link rel="manifest" href="icons/manifest.json" href="http://localhost/pub/static/frontend/Name/theme_dir/de_DE" />
Best Answer
Ok, so the answer is that
href
needs to be replaced withsrc
. Also you need to place or copy the normal favicon.ico file inside thetheme_dir/web/
directory. All my other icons are intheme_dir/web/icons/
The following now works for me: