Genesis Snippets

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Change or remove the default favicon

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Changing the favicon for your Genesis child theme is easy. Simply replace the default favicon file at

wp-content/child-theme/images/favicon.ico

If you want to remove the favicon altogether, use this line of code in your functions.php:


/** Remove favicon */
remove_action('genesis_meta', 'genesis_load_favicon');

Credit: Jennifer Baumann

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  1. Dan Baritchi says

    Hey David!
    I prefer to not delete the favicon file, as it’ll just get replaced next time the theme is updated…
    But more importantly, I’d like to be able to specify my own favicon. 🙂
    Is there a similar functions.php based approach for replacing the Genesis favicon with a favicon of your choice? 🙂
    Thanks!
    Dan

  2. david says

    Hey Dan, you can always replace the `genesis_load_favicon` function with your own. So do something like (untested)

    function child_load_favicon() {
	echo '<link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="' . get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />'
}

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