Windows 8 pinned sites tiles

When a user pins a site in Windows 8 you can select the tile colour and an image to put in the tile.

There are two properties you can set for the tile:

Name Description
msapplication-TileImage The image for the tile
msapplication-TileColor The colour for the tile

The image must be a 144x144px PNG.

The HTML

Add the following to the head section of your website:

<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/myicon.png"/>
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#FF00FF"/>

WordPress

To add these items to a WordPress site, add the HTML to the header.php theme file.

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