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How can I allow the user to upload a custom background?

Hi, I have done something similar in one of my project. So, I may put the code here. Where do you want to show the background. Just on user profile page or for every page on the site when the user is logged in. I mean if you see twitter, It allows to setup the background for user profile, while on orkut, the theme changes sitewide. Just trying to understand your need.

I want to show it on just the profile.

Thanks for your help so far.

Thanks. Let me clean the code and put the plugin in an hour here

Thank you very much

Ok, Here you go

https://github.com/sbrajesh/bp-custom-background-for-user-profile

Please note, I have not added localization to the plugin yet. It will work with single/Multisite both. Once you activate the plugin, a user can visit his/her profile and change Background link will be present next to the change avatar. Hope that helps.

@sbrajesh

Nice job… works great! You da man… as usual
Maybe an update could include an option to have the chosen background image stay fixed on screen or scroll with pages?

@pcwriter
Thanks Patrick. Will sure do that in update. It was something I did in an hour, so could not do much.
btw, you can do your own css section using some code (here is an example)

https://gist.github.com/1034853

just putting that in functions.php or bp-custom.php and you can modify it

Thank you @sbrajesh. Just tested it and it’s working as advertised, cool.

what a nice plugin, just tried it and it work like a charm. but i will prefer if it can change the colour of the container rather than the site background.

@mercime, thank you
@naijaping thanks. That is easily achievable. If you are using Bp-default theme, you can use this code in your functions.php

https://gist.github.com/1034872

That should do it.

@sbrajesh

Thanks. I’ll give those additional snippets a try tomorrow

Probably should be an option to delete the background image.
Any chance of adding a color picker option?

This looks like it’s gonna be one of those oh-so-popular goodies by Brajesh!

@sbrajesh – Now you’ve done it. We’re cooking up with more feature requests
… add option to change background for groups as well?
Thank you.