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WordPress plugin: Custom app icons (for iPhone and iPod Touch)

A small WordPress plugin that allows you to:

  1. specify an uploaded image to use as the application shortcut icon (app icon) when iPhone / iPod Touch users select ‘Add to Home Screen’ in Safari
  2. specify whether users’ avatars should become the app icon when creating a shortcut to a user’s author page (for example:http://example.com/authors/username/)

Screenshots

  • Add to Home Screen' button on an iPhone
  • The screen that appears on iPhone after pressing 'Add to Home Screen', this screen gives the user the opportunity to name the new app icon shortcut
  • The resulting iPhone home screen containing the new shortcut and custom app icon

Installation

  1. Download the release package
  2. Unzip the package (discard the folder with version number)
  3. Add the folder custom-app-icons to your plugins directory (…/wp-content/plugins/)
  4. Upload the new files to your WordPress server (if you aren’t working directly on the server)
  5. Visit the plugins page in WordPress and activate the plugin

Use

Once the plugin is installed and activated:

  1. Upload a 45×45 pixel image you would like to use as your app icon
  2. Open the ‘Custom app icons’ page under ‘Settings’ in WordPress
  3. Add the path to your image to the ‘Default app icon’ field
  4. Optionally select ‘Use avatars as app icons for author pages’
  5. Submit the updated settings ‘Save Changes’

You should now see code similar to <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/assets/my-app-icon.png" /> added to the <head> of your WordPress site pages and see your custom app icons when you use ‘Add to Home Screen’ for your site on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Changelog

  • Version 0.1: Initial release

Download

Custom app icons is licensed under the The GNU General Public License (GPL), by downloading and/or using it you are agreeing to abide by the terms of that license.

Package

Download the complete Custom app icons 0.1 plugin package (.zip)