Hello Mary,
How I could change the favicon in the Afterburner theme?
I already replaced the favicon.ico in pix folder, I cleared All Caches in Theme Selector's page, I clicked on Purge all Caches below Development, I refreshed the browser n times, and nothing happen, mi favicon isn't change!
Please, help me!
Hi,
The favicon.ico is called directly from theme/afterburner/layout/default.php so if you added a new favicon.ico it needs to be called exactly that. However, if you have done as you say, cleared "theme cache" and "purge all caches", then the only thing you have not done is deleted your own browser cache as this is where it will be stored...on your computer!
If you have done all that and still you are not seeing the change, then try clicking Ctrl + F5 (Control Key plus Function Key 5) on your keyboard, this will force a refresh of all the images including the favicon.
Mary
Morning Mary,
Doesn't it sound like Michael has put the favicon icon in the wrong folder? which I suspect from his mail and from your "it is called from". Doesn't that mean something like: the browser will read it from this path?
But when you say "be called exactly that" aren't you talking about naming the file?
I hope I'm not being overly pedantic, esp at this time of year
I had wondered why Favicon sometimes worked and sometimes didn't - I did not know that it resided with themes. This leads me to suggest/request a Favicon field in the theme settings. Something like uploading profile pictures - and this would send it to the appropriate folder which normal users might not have access to.
In my own Moodle site, I can toy with the inner workings of Moodle, but the sites at uni I have no control over - and wouldn't expect it.
Happy new year
James
Hi James,
Favicons are a pain. I think the problem is that thay are all called favicon.ico and can change at the drop of a hat! Usually it is just a local cache thing, if I had the URL of the site in question, I would be more likely to see the new icon than Manuel, as his original Moodle favicon is cached on his browser, whereas mine would be the new one.
Happy New Year to you too. 
Mary
Mary, I agree with you. These favicon's tend to be a problem based in the browser's cache, after one has followed the directions to move the favicon into the correct place.
I changed my favicon on my website a couple months ago and it took my browsers a little while to update it. I recall reading some information about how to force the change in Firefox, but just waiting awhile was easier.
hi
i am using splash theme how to change the favico of this theme
and where to keep the new favico image which folder path
Hi,
The favicon.ico is stored in your moodle/theme/splash/pix directory..
So all you need to do is...
Hope that helps?
Mary
I found this question useful because I was interested in the answers =)
The overall direction of the answers was good. And I'm sure that by now you've figured it out. Just to add however I had the "Essential Theme" installed - what I had to do was replace the favicon.ico file in all locations - i.e. in the existing "standard", "bootstrap" and "essential" folders.
1) In Moodle - Enter theme designer mode (Home > Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings)
2) In FTP (consult your host) - replace favicon.ico - all locations
3) In Moodle - Exit theme designer mode
After a few hours and reloads it worked fine. My next goal is getting my favicon to show when I save the page as shortcut to an iPhone home screen.
