Favicon is not showing on site, only in dashboard

[Belinda]

I created and uploaded a favicon.ico file and it's showing when I'm using my dashboard but not on my actual site.
Anyone know why?

[Susan]

Because favicons are cached differently than anything else.

If you want to check if it is working, the easiest thing to do (in my opinion), is to visit your site from a computer/browser which has never visited your site before.

Otherwise, share your URL here, so we can tell you what we are seeing.

[Belinda]

web is http://www.thetraininglady.com

[Susan]

Belinda:

I'm seeing the "G" favicon. Where do you upload the new one? Is it in your child theme's images folder on your hosting site?

[Belinda]

I had followed an article on the WP site about adding a favicon and it said to upload to the root directory which I did and also to the child theme root but I've now just added it to the images folder also and renamed the old one. Still seeing the G though.

Article was http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Favicon

[Belinda]

It is in the images folder now although I had used a WP article to do it before and it didn't mention the images folder. I've added to that folder now. I'm still seeing the G logo though.

[Susan]

As I said, unless you visit your site from a computer which has never visited it, you're not going to see it immediately.

I just checked your site, and your favicon is there (it's the letters TTL with a bar above and below the letters)

[mystylevita]

My site is having the same issue. I have even downloaded an "all in one favicon" plugin and it still doesn't display correctly.

http://www.mystylevita.com

[Belinda]

I just looked at your blog mystylevita and i can see your favicon as an aqua coloured shape. Is that what you wanted?

Mine just started working by itself. I think my browser cache just needed to refresh.

[Susan]

Mine just started working by itself.

Yep, that's how it generally works - just when you are sure it's never going to show up for you (despite everyone else seeing it), one day, it's there. 🙂

[mickx]

My favicon is perfectly shown in Chrome, but in IE I still get the Genesis favicon. I've started the site on a new computer (that was never been on my site) and there the IE favicon was on the tab!!!

[Ren Ventura]

Personally, I like to add favicons via the genesis_pre_load_favicon hook. Once the code is added, the favicon normally appears right away.

add_filter( 'genesis_pre_load_favicon', 'my_custom_favicon' );
function my_custom_favicon( $favicon_url ) {
	return 'http://domain.com/path-to-favicon';
}

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[simonoffski]

First of all you need to log in via FTP, go to the images folder in your child theme, either delete or download then delete the image that is named as 'favicon.ico' this is the Genesis favicon, up load your favicon and rename it as 'favicon.ico' then you need to clear your websites cache.

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