I am hoping to change the background of my new site – http://www.strictlylax.com. The problem is that I am using the child theme wp-widget by modemlooper which can be found here http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks

[@lph2005 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Hey John,

I believe that you can add a css statement to your style.css in the child-theme and it should work.

Something like this – in which the image is in a directory called images sitting off the root

body {
background: #eaeaea url( /images/background.gif ) top left repeat-x;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
line-height: 170%;
color: #555;
width: 90%;
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 1250px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top: 0 !important; /* Remove the top padding space for the admin bar in this theme */
}

[@erich73 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

which image are you talking about ? The big one (1250 x 125px) in the top header ?
If so, go into your Dashboard (domain.com/wp-admin) and upload a new image exactly this size in the section “Appearance”.

[@lph2005 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Good point rich – I was just making the assumption he meant background image to the body.

[@android11 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

thanks guys, sorry i didn’t make myself clear, I am hoping to change the background color to black or insert an image. @LPH2005 Thank you, I will give it a try as soon as I get a chance!