Title: site_icon_attachment_metadata
Published: August 18, 2015
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘site_icon_attachment_metadata’, array $metadata )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the site icon attachment metadata.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [wp_generate_attachment_metadata()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_generate_attachment_metadata/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$metadata`array

Attachment metadata.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $metadata = apply_filters( 'site_icon_attachment_metadata', $metadata );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-icon.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-icon.php#L131)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-icon.php#L131-L131)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Site_Icon::insert_attachment()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_site_icon/insert_attachment/)`wp-admin/includes/class-wp-site-icon.php` |

Inserts an attachment.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/site_icon_attachment_metadata/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.3.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.3.0/) | Introduced. |

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