Hivepress in a way has it own way of not making search engines esp Google to display favicons.
once I change the theme to a diff wordpress theme, favicons automatically shows in search engines. once i switch back to listing hive, search engines stop showing favicons.. if this is a bug please fix.. Also once i update a site icon in wordpress setings and then install hivepress demo contents, my website crashes .. Please Fix!
Hi @stgarena,
To change the Favicon, in the backend of WordPress visit Appearance > Customize > Site Identity. The Site Icon section handles the Favicon.
If you can provide steps to reproduce the website crashing issue, the HivePress team will fix it soon. However, myself and many others have successfully installed HivePress and the demo content without an issue, so if you’re able to provide more details, that would help the team troubleshoot this.
In any case, you may find the following documentation helpful:
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
Chris 
Thank you for this but what i am saying is google refuses to show the favicon in search. I don’t have a problem setting it up. i go by googles rules in setting it up. in png format with 512x512 dimentions.. but it refuses to show up in search engines..
with me providing the crash issue, I can’t risk it because i have already spent 4 days creating this site.. once the site crashes it never comes back even disabling hivepress and removing the site icon.. In order to know what im talking about, kindly setup your site icon in wordpress settings before transporting your demo content via one demo import and you will see the crash.. in order to swerve this crash, i boycotted updating the site icon via wordpress settings first before transporting the demo content and then later updated in in the Appearance, customization tap
Hi,
The favicon is a native WordPress feature, and neither our theme nor our plugins modify this functionality. HivePress simply relies on the default WordPress function wp_head(), which outputs the favicon tag based on the file you uploaded in Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Favicon.
If you haven’t made any customizations related to this and there are no SEO plugins that could affect the favicon output, please try checking it using an online tool such as a favicon checker. It will show you which favicon is currently being served. If the tool shows a different favicon than the one set in your settings, the issue may be related to caching (either browser or plugin cache). If the tool displays the correct favicon but Google still shows the old one, it likely means that Google has not re-indexed your site yet.
Hope this helps.