Use a PHP script to change the Genesis favicon

This is the forth of the four methods to change the default Genesis favicon for a WordPress Genesis theme. In Method 4 you need to modify the functions.php of your child’s theme. You should always make a copy of your child theme’s functions.php before you make any changes. Should you have a problem all you need to do is use an FTP program and upload the orginal file under the child theme’s folder.

1. Open the Editor on the dashboard in your WordPress Admin
2. Open your Genesis Child Theme’s function.php.
3. Add the following script at the bottom of the page. Replace the ‘www.yourdomain.com/’ with your own domain & replace image_path your path to the favicon.

// Loads favicon from specified URL
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_load_favicon', 'cd_favicon' );
function cd_favicon( $myfavicon) {
//replace this with the path of your favicon file
$myfavicon = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/image_path/favicon.ico';
return $myfavicon;
}

Make sure you save the file!

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That’s it!