No favicon in 2.1.8?

Yes your browser is pulling the favicon from the root directory, where I saved a copy of the favicon.ico. However, the template is supposed to manage the favicon, it did manage the favicon in the previous version, and now it does not. You can verify that by looking at the source code where there is a distinct lack of any reference to favicon.ico

The code used to look like this:
‘<!– Favicon –>
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/favicon.ico&#8221; type=”image/x-icon”>
<link rel=”pingback” href=”http://www.mysite.com/xmlrpc.php&#8221; />’

Now it looks like this:
‘<!– Favicon –>
<link rel=”pingback” href=”http://www.mysite.com/xmlrpc.php&#8221; />’