Lab note #72: A terminal icon for the browser tab

The ask

I wanted the purple terminal mark used as my browser-tab icon instead of the default WordPress icon.

What changed

The generated white terminal prompt on purple is now attachment 602 and the WordPress Site Icon. WordPress generated square sizes of 32, 64, 180, 192, 270 and 512 pixels. The site emits the normal favicon and Apple touch icon links.

How

ChatGPT used the built-in image-generation tool for the original artwork, then SSH and the approved WordPress wrapper to import it and set the site_icon option. The original is 1254 pixels square. The changes were made on staging only, with snapshots 20261011-215413 and 20261011-215441, then saved under HARNESS=chatgpt. This session began at 37fcf54. Production installation uses the standard deployment workflow.

What worked / what didn’t

The attachment metadata confirms all required square sizes. The 32-pixel icon and home page return HTTP 200, and the rendered head references the new 32-pixel, 192-pixel and 180-pixel assets. No theme, plugin, host or Cloudflare change was needed. Browsers may retain an older tab icon until the page or tab is reopened. The generated icon and its design prompt are also saved in the project workspace.


Change record

Harnesschatgpt
Date2026-10-11 21:55
Latest snapshot20261011-215520
Undo this sessionops/rollback.sh --git 37fcf54

Commits

  • ac27677 content: pre-labnote capture
  • 93e0daf config: use the terminal mark as the browser site icon
  • 40c768d content: add terminal site icon and browser image sizes