Sunday, January 8, 2012

How to change Favicon in Liferay

Going through LinkedIn I found out a review requested for website based on LR ,it had the default Favicon showing in the address bar of the browser and I instantly decided to write this post Its really simple to change the Favicon and site logo
using the control Panel change default site logo :
1. Login as admin
2. Go to control Panel
3. Click portal setting under portal section (left hand side bar)
4. Under miscellaneous heading click display setting (right hand side bar) make sure checkbox with label Allow community administrators to use their own logo? -- is checked
5. Click on change appearing below the logo
6. Browse and upload image (good to use .png image)
7. Click save
8 . Click save under right hand side bar For updating for a particular click 1> mange on top bar 2> Setting 3>Click on logo 4>Upload image 5>Save Use

Below is the link of Wiki Post on LR website --
VM file of Theme or portal-ext.properties to change Favicon
Click here for Wiki Post @ LR to change Favicon