By mjross on

If you create a custom theme, and its recipient installs it within a Drupal site and sets it as the default theme, the site's favicon is apparently still the file misc/favicon.ico -- even if there is a favicon.ico file located in theme X's root directory (e.g., sites/all/themes/X). The user can choose your theme's favicon.ico, by going to the theme's configuration page and setting the shortcut icon. But this is a manual process.

Is there a way to modify a theme, before shipping it to a user, so the theme's own favicon is specified and becomes the site's favicon, as soon as the theme is set as the default, without additional work by the user?

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mjross’s picture

mjross commented

No one has any suggestions?

rocketfuel’s picture

rocketfuel commented

but I thought I had the same question as you.

Turns out that a subtheme doesn't necessarily inherit the favicon of its parent theme. I had actually setup the favicon correctly in my Zen subtheme, merely by putting the favicon.ico in the root directory of that theme. It seems that drupal looks for a favicon.ico in the current theme's root, and if it doesn't find it then it outputs:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/misc/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

but merely putting the favicon.ico file in the theme root, and touching no theme files or settings in the admin interface, led drupal to output:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/sites/all/themes/mytheme/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

I kept thinking that it wasn't working, but I have a subtheme of Zen, and then subthemes of that. The sub-subthemes didn't inherit the favicon, I had to manually place it in each of their theme roots.

@mjross, I hope I have helped you at all, although I probably haven't. I just thought I should put this online so that others won't waste hours on such a trivial thing, as I did.

picxelplay’s picture

picxelplay commented

Off hand, I would believe that this is an issue with your custom theme. Any favicon placed inside your theme root should override the Drupal favicon.
As a note, maybe try clearing browser cache. Maybe it is working, but your browser is just not showing it.

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davidneedham
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commented

Indeed. Place the image at the root of your subtheme. It must be named favicon.ico to automatically override.

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svrl commented

Try to delete or change Drupal's root directory favicon located in first level of Drupal directory. Change it there.