Why is the WP favicon appearing as the letter G?

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  pauldellis · Member · Dec 9, 2013 at 11:36 pm

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  It used to be that when accessing my WP.com site, I would see a little WP favicon. Now I see a black G and this appears on both FF and Chrome. What’s the G stand for?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 12:25 am

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  Hi Paul,

  I have checked your site with FireFox and Chrome and I could not find a favicon with a black G. If you see something different can you please upload a screenshot to your Media Library? I’d be more than happy to take a look for you!

  If you would like to use your own favicon please view this guide here.

  Cheers!

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  pauldellis · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 12:43 am

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  Thanks for your response. Here’s a cropped screenshot…

  

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 1:47 am

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  Hi Paul,

  It looks like this is the default Genesis Favicon that comes with when you use Genesis as the theme on self-hosted WordPress.org. However, you can change this through the guide I showed you before.

  Please note that it can take up to a few days for the Blavatar (favicon) to show up so please be patient!

  Thank you!

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  pauldellis · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 2:11 am

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  That’s kinda weird since I’m not using that theme. Anyhoo, I was just curious.

  Thanks for the link to the guide. I’ll take this as a good opportunity to make my own favicon.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Dec 10, 2013 at 2:30 am

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  Hi Paul,

  That sounds great! Let me know if you have any questions with the new Blavatar!

  Happy Holidays!