Title: Remove favicon
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# Remove favicon
* [SurfKauai19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfkauai19/)
* (@surfkauai19)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/)
* Hi-
I’m trying to remove an old favicon, but have been unsuccessful after trying
the following:
* 1. Removing it from the root directory
2. Removing it from the themes directory
3. Clearing cache on browser (e.g., both Firefox and Chrome) 4. Re-starting computer
* I’m no coding expert, but I even manually searched the header file (via the Dashboard
>Appearance>Theme>Editor) and I can’t even find any reference to the favicon
that keeps displaying. So I’m confused as to how the favicon could keep displaying
if I don’t see it in the header/header.php file. Am I missing something obvious
here? Thanks very much.
*
* ```
>
<?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
>
```
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* [Jay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fectio1/)
* (@fectio1)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542262)
* Check your functions file and any plugins that may be outputting it.
* Thread Starter [SurfKauai19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfkauai19/)
* (@surfkauai19)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542270)
* Thanks for the suggestion. I checked the functions.php file and couldn’t find
any evidence of favicon or file with .ico extension. Any other possibilities?
* [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
* (@rajeshsoni)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542275)
* What’s the URL?
* Thread Starter [SurfKauai19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfkauai19/)
* (@surfkauai19)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542277)
* [http://iterativelearning.org/iterativeblog/](http://iterativelearning.org/iterativeblog/)
* [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
* (@rajeshsoni)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542278)
* I see NO favicon. Check the screenshot: [http://screencast.com/t/aZNxMzlz](http://screencast.com/t/aZNxMzlz)
* [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
* (@rajeshsoni)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542281)
* Here’s another link that confirms there’s NO favicon: [http://www.seositecheckup.com/favicon.php](http://www.seositecheckup.com/favicon.php)
* (screenshot: [http://screencast.com/t/X2jH2iOMsD](http://screencast.com/t/X2jH2iOMsD))
* Thread Starter [SurfKauai19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfkauai19/)
* (@surfkauai19)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542288)
* Thanks, maybe it’s just a Chrome issue. Because you’re right, I don’t see it
in Firefox or Safari, but it does appear in Chrome. [screenshot](http://f.cl.ly/items/2f402J470O3I2s2O2J1c/wp_blog_favicon.png)
* [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
* (@anevins)
* WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542290)
* You should really clear your browser’s cache.
* Edit: Try a [Clear Cache addon](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clear-cache/cppjkneekbjaeellbfkmgnhonkkjfpdn?hl=en).
* [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
* (@rajeshsoni)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542292)
* [@surfkauai19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surfkauai19/)
* Did you try navigating to [http://iterativelearning.org/iterativeblog/favicon.ico](http://iterativelearning.org/iterativeblog/favicon.ico)
and doing a hard refresh ?
* [@andrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew/) Nevins,
* That’s what the OP mentioned in the first post. He’s tried clearing the cache.
* RS
* [Phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptietjen/)
* (@ptietjen)
* [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-favicon/#post-3542316)
* Thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, the Clear Cache addon didn’t work.
Also tried hard refresh (on Mac, press CTRL & Click Refresh button), and no luck
there. I even reinstalled Chrome, but that didn’t fix it. Wow, this is really
strange how I can’t get rid of it. But thanks again for your suggestions 🙂
* P.S.: I’m assuming I did the Hard Refresh quickly. I referred to a post on stack
exchange [http://superuser.com/questions/220179/how-can-i-do-a-cache-refresh-in-google-chrome](http://superuser.com/questions/220179/how-can-i-do-a-cache-refresh-in-google-chrome)
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