Add custom favicon.ico to T3 bootstrap framework for Joomla!

• Stefan Helander


• 27 Feb 2018

When you are using the T3 bootstrap framwork for Joomla! to create a Joomla! responsive template, an easy way to use a custom favicon.ico is to just replace the file templates/t3_bs_blank/favicon.ico with your own.

This is fine – until you update the T3 framwork. Then your custom favicon.ico will be overwritten with the default file.

This is a solution:

• Create an override of the file templates/t3_bs_blank/tpls/blocks/head.php and place it in templates/t3_bs_blank/local/tpls/blocks/head.php
• Add the following code last in the file:
  <!-- LOCAL FAVICON.ICO -->
<?php
if (is_file(T3_TEMPLATE_PATH . '/local/favicon.ico')) {
$this->addFavicon(T3_TEMPLATE_URL . '/local/favicon.ico');
}
?>
<!-- //LOCAL FAVICON.ICO -->
• Now put your custom favicon.ico in templates/t3_bs_blank/local

Now your custom favicon.ico will survive updates of the T3 framework.