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Custom Favicon – Easily Add a Favicon in WordPress

by Harish Chouhan · Uncategorized

Easily add a custom favicon and Apple touch icon to your WordPress site, including support for dark mode, SVG icons, and admin dashboard branding.

How scoring works →
74 Health · B
Maintenance 63
Rating quality 90
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-10%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “5K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
5K–6K ≈5.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1380 daily snapshots

Details

Version
1.1.0
Last updated
12mo ago
Added
2013-05-27
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.8.5
Requires PHP
7.4

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-09-06 4K+ → 5K+ up after 129 days in band
  2. 2025-04-30 5K+ → 4K+ down after 285 days in band
  3. 2024-07-19 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in band
  4. 2024-07-17 5K+ → 6K+ up after 3 days in band
  5. 2024-07-14 6K+ → 5K+ down after 259 days in band
  6. 2023-10-29 7K+ → 6K+ down after 218 days in band
  7. 2023-03-25 8K+ → 7K+ down

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Custom Favicon – Easily Add a Favicon in WordPress: 5K+ active installs, 5.0★ (17 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-favicon