Site icon in site header

Question

Icons

Hello Habr.
Help, I've been struggling for half a day - I'm using a theme for Wordpress, it has its own icon as standard (the one called favicon). I wanted to change to my icon. I changed the previous icon in the site directory to my own, I didn’t change the file name, the sizes are the same, the format is the same.
But for some reason the site continues to display the old icon.

What I tried:
- clear the cache
- reload the page Ctrl F5
- look for links to favicon.ico files throughout the code

The site stubbornly continues to display its own.
There is a suspicion that he is loading the icon from the web, maybe from the website of the theme developer. How to find this link?
Thank you all in advance!

Answer 1

The favicon icon is cached in some special place in the browser. The safest thing is not to replace the existing icon, but to save it under a new name and specify the path to this new file in the link element in the head section of the page.

Answer 2

in the head section there will be a tag something like

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://habrahabr.ru/i/favicon.ico"  /> 

Answer 3

Try firebug to track where it's coming from

Answer 4

So what's the problem with opening the source code and seeing where the favicon comes from?

Answer 5

What theme are you using? Look there header.php

Answer 6

The style file is in your theme directory, not in the root of the site. And here it is: link rel="shortcut icon" href="/head.ico" means that the icon is taken from the same place, from the theme directory.

Answer 7

The favicon is cached in who knows where, in order to reset the favicon cache, you need to open it in the browser via a direct link (such as habr.ru/favicon.ico) and press f5 a couple of times until it is updated.
ctrl+f5 and cache flush usually don't hit