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bellyitch on "Edit Background so images appear to far right"

bellyitch — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:25:24 +0000

Thank you so much! This is helpful!

designsimply on "Edit Background so images appear to far right"

designsimply — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:22:08 +0000

There are a couple different approaches you could take for this. One would be to just use the Appearance → Background page. If you want to set a background image and anchor it to the right side of the page, upload a background image to Appearance → Background first and then you will see some display options appear—select the options for "Right" and "Tiled Vertically."

Note that if you set a background image it will be anchored to the right side of the browser viewport and so it will change when the size of the browser window changes.

If you wanted to anchor a background image to the right side of the main wrapper of the content in The Columnist theme, you could add something like this to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS editor:

#main {
	padding-right: 32px;
	background: url(http://s.wordpress.org/about/images/logos/wordpress-logo-32-blue.png) 100% 0% repeat-y;
}

Change the url() value to your own image link, and adjust the padding-right value to match the width of your image or until you like where the image appears.

bellyitch on "Edit Background so images appear to far right"

bellyitch — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:02:30 +0000

Hi!

I want to edit my blog so the background has an image that appears only in the blank grey strip on the right of the site. Right now, there is nothing there but a blank space. I would like to fill that space with a collage that appears ONLY on the right.

It is using The columnist theme

Thanks.

thesacredpath on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

thesacredpath — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:54:54 +0000

For header images, ALWAYS prepare them ahead of time to the exact size for your theme that is listed at appearance > header. If you do that then wordpress will not have to crop it and re-save it as a different file and you will retain the quality of the original.

timethief on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

timethief — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:41:55 +0000

@dagzinggirl
Some theme provide for custom background colors or images and some do not. Those that do have this feature have the setting here . Appearance > Background

dagzinggirl on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

dagzinggirl — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:35:40 +0000

I'm having a major brainfart right here. I want to add a background to my blog, and I did so yesterday, but now i have a new blog and i cant figure out how to do it. Also why does my header always come out in bad quality, and is there anything i can do to make it better?

thesacredpath on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

thesacredpath — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:16:52 +0000

As far as why someone cannot put .something in the CSS and then just call it from within a post or page, that can be done as long as the person has the Custom Design Upgrade.

thesacredpath on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

thesacredpath — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:13:27 +0000

At wordpress.COM, things work differently. You cannot edit or change the CSS without the Custom Design Upgrade. What you can do self-hosted is not relevant to wordpress.COM.

Familiarize your self with the basic differences between wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.ORG installations.

zendim on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

zendim — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:00:13 +0000

Woops.. Screen lag caused that last pathname to turn out wrong.
Its Appearance/Editor. And this is when your in the Dashboard.
:<)g

zendim on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

zendim — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:58:34 +0000

I'm hosting on my own server.
I tried something that seems to be working, and it makes me wonder why anybody is paying for this Custom CSS upgrade.

I just went to Appearance/Edit/Editor. Then I entered a custom class. Then, I called the class from a div inside the html window of a page.

Works just like one would expect it to.

:<)g

raincoaster on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

raincoaster — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:56:58 +0000

WordPress.com has disabled it. The changes possible to CSS here are limited for security and other reasons. WordPress.com is a much more locked-down environment than WordPress.org.

zendim on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

zendim — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:28:01 +0000

I'm going to jump in here, as Mr. thesacredpath seems to be listening, and my question will probably help helensian as well.

I know how to write css. I'm used to working in a "hard coding" environment where I know where everything is and its just a matter of linking it up and having your syntax right.
Wordpress seems intent on defeating this simple method, if one wants to step outside the lines of whatever their template is.
But, its just css, I'm thinking. So, why can't one just find the .css file for their template,, such as "standard.css" -- a css ffile that is called in every template, add a .something class, and then call it from the html of text area of a page, with something like this: <p style="something">?
What prevents this from happening?

thesacredpath on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

thesacredpath — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:00:53 +0000

It looks like you found it.

helensian on "I want to add a background onto my theme..."

helensian — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:46:07 +0000

I want to add a back ground onto my theme - there is no set section for this but it does say "support for custom background" in the theme description. Please help!