A favicon is a website icon associated with a particular website or a webpage. Having a favicon on your blog allows visitors to quickly identify your site in their bookmarks. If you are a WordPress blog owner and want to add a favicon to your blog, here is the simplest way to do so.

In the tutorial below, we will be using ‘MaxBlogPress Favicon’ WordPress plugin to add a favicon to your WordPress blog easily. Proceed as mentioned below to quickly and easily add a favicon to your blog.

1. Login to your blog admin dashboard.

2. Click on ‘Add New‘ under ‘Plugins’ from the left sidebar.

3. Enter ‘MaxBlogPress Favicon‘ in the search box and enter.

4. Click on ‘Install’ beside ‘MaxBlogPress Favicon’ plugin details.

5. Activate the plugin

6. Click on ‘MBP Favicon‘ under settings from left sidebar.

7. Choose a favicon from the available list or enter UR of a favicon or upload a favicon from your computer.

8. Once a favicon is selected, click on ‘Save button’.

PS – A favicon should be in .ico format. You can use Free Online Favicon.ico Icon Generator to convert any image into a Favicon file.

PPS – MaxBlogPress Favicon WordPress plugin can be manually downloaded and installed by clicking here.

If you are a WordPress user, you might have encountered the IO Error when browsing local drive for uploading a picture. The error reads as: IO error. An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later. I was suffering with the same problem from past two days and I have finally figured out the workarounds and solutions to address this problem.

Alternative when encountered IO Error

1. Click on the ‘browser uploader‘ link instead.

2. Browse the file on your system and click upload.

Fixing IO Error when Uploading Images in WordPress

1. Go to your PC desktop

2. Click on Start -> Run and enter appwiz.cpl in the Run dialog box. You will be presented with ‘Add or Remove Programs’ window.

3. Remove Adobe Flash Player ActiveX by selecting Adobe Flash Player ActiveX and removing it.

4. Download and reinstall Adobe Flash Player ActiveX .

Almost all bloggers add images in their blog posts. Besides enhancing readability and understanding of blog posts, images can also be utilised for SEO. Adding Alt and Title Attributes to images can greatly improve your search engine rankings. However, adding these attributes properly is not that easy for a newbie. For such a SEO newbie, there is an awesome plugin called ‘SEO Friendly Images’ which adds title and alternative attributes to all your blog images and optimizes them for SEO automagically.

Once you have downloaded, installed and activated SEO Friendly Images plugin, you will notice few options under Settings Section in your WordPress Admin Dashboard. Here you can enter alt and title attributes to optimize all your blog images.

You can enter any text in the field including two special tags:

• %title – replaces post title
• %name – replaces image file name (without extension)
• %category – replaces post category

This plugin is a must-have for wordpress bloggers. This plugin is seriously awesome in the sense that it adds alt and title attribute to hundreds of blog images that you previously missed. I would suggest using ‘%title’ in Title attribute and ‘%name photo’ in alt attribute. Using ‘%title’ in Title attribute is far better than having nothing as image title attribute. Also, adding ‘%name photo’ in alt attribute uses name of the image (without extension) in alt tag.