Gosh favicons are finicky. I just got done cleaning up and organizing my years-old collection of bookmarks and noticed that I didn’t really like my current website favicon so pulled out an old sprite someone “made” for me, modified from Mog’s sprite in FF6. I’ve sort of grown attached to it over the years and so it seems to fit perfectly as a favicon.
I found a really promising “sandbox” replacement for wordpress, I’ll be working on a project shortly utilizing it, I have high hopes for it, it will be nice to work with something that’s been updated to take into account WordPress’s newer features.