Should the image being used as the favicon show up as the icon in an RSS reader app? In my RSS reader app, when I subscribe to my site, the placeholder is just the default "T" on a color background that the app uses for feeds that don't have a specified icon.
Wondering if I need to set this explicitly in the feed.rss file in my template.
As far as I know, RSS readers simply use the favicon provided by the host the RSS feed is hosted on. So if your RSS feed is located at sampleblog.blot.im/feed.rss, it will likely search for sampleblog.blog.im/favicon.ico. The problem is that Blot does not actually provide this file; instead, the header section of the template will point browsers to the file to use as the favicon (which is the previously uploaded avatar). Obviously this only works for HTML / browsers, so you probably have to provide the favicon.ico file for yourself. I pointed my template to this file, too, because my avatar is not square and would therefore show up distorted as a favicon.
Answered 3 months ago · Improve this answerThe answer to this question will depend on the feed reader in question. Adding a favicon.ico file to the root directory of your template or blog folder is a great idea, though
Answered 3 months ago · Improve this answer