Defalt theme – background colour outside around page

Check the other thread, it’s been solved for you ??

Thanks Maerk

As posted in “CSS changes don’t save” Post as I think that post is complete I have not been able to resolve problem.

I just applied the edit you recommended and Ctrl F5 (using the colour code #E69821 instead of black but it still is grey.

URL is voipworking4you.info .

Now I have changed it in the style.css and in the header.php but no “happy happy joy joy”

cheers
Timo

I’ll close this one off and stick to the “CSS changes not updating” thread as it is not actually resolved.

Timo

The proposed changes do not work as there are two stylesheets on the page.

The embedded styles contain the css

body { background: url(“https://voipworking4you.info/Blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg”); }
#page { background: url(“https://voipworking4you.info/Blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbg.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; }

Which is preventing the suggested changes working.

Thanks

However now I’m really confused …. is this still in the header.php file and if so what is the solution?

I’M not great with css obviously.

many thanks
Timo

The CSS you want to change is in you header.php file, yes.

Change

body { background: url("https://voipworking4you.info/Blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg"); }

to

body { background: #exxxxx url("https://voipworking4you.info/Blog/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg"); }

Where #exxxxx is whatever colour you want to change.

Don’t worry about being new to stuff, everyone starts somewhere!

I’M not great with css obviously.

Then you shouldn’t touch the default ever… It is confusing even for seasoned CSS experts ??

Then you shouldn’t touch the default ever… It is confusing even for seasoned CSS experts ??

No it’s not! ??

Many thanks Maerk

If you don’t fiddle you don’t learn I believe and in that you make mistakes along the way ??

Like I have.

I have amended the code in header.php as above and still doesn’t want to play the game .. it really wants to be grey. I obviously amended a couple of others that I shouldn’t have ie page but it doesn’t affect it at the moment either .. is there css elsewhere that is overiding it?

Code is as follows:

<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
/* To accomodate differing install paths of WordPress, images are referred only here,
and not in the wp-layout.css file. If you prefer to use only CSS for colors and what
not, then go right ahead and delete the following lines, and the image files. */

body { background: #E69821 url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg”); }
<?php /* Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not */ if ((! $withcomments) && (! is_single())) { ?>
#page { background: #E69821 url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/kubrickbg.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>

One really silly question .. I have tried to utilise the theme editor but it has a message at the bottom that says “If this file was writable you could edit it”. Where have I missed the setting? I have beem changing code in Dreamweaver .. not that I would think this would cause a problem.

Thanks again .. go away grey colour.

Can anyone add anything to last post of mine.

The page initially comes up the right colour for a brief second then the grey takes over. The code I have changed is in above post

in your header file

delete

body { background: #E69821 url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg”); }

and change

<?php /* Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not */ if ((! $withcomments) && (! is_single())) { ?>
#page { background: #E69821 url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/kubrickbg.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>

to

<?php /* Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not */ if ((! $withcomments) && (! is_single())) { ?>
#page { background: #E69821; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>

this should work. just not sure about the php in there.

Legendary .. thanks for the fix.