I am so sorry I had no idea that you had replied – I just thought I’d try again and have seen this – I don’t knowhow I missed it.
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Both really, if that is possible?!
With some CSS knowledge you can do either.
Each post has a unique ID number, which you can see when you’re editing a post in the browser’s address bar or in the browser’s source.
For example, the first post on your homepage (“ACB for Landgate Create : : Exhibition | Turnpike Gallery”) has the post ID 3591, and the unique CSS ID post-3591, which you can see if you view the page source:
<article id="post-3591" [code truncated]
What this means is that you can assign a particular background colour to it with CSS. For example, you could try this to add a light blue background colour:
#post-3591 {
background-color: #e3f4f9;
}
To add the same color instead behind all standard-format posts, you could try this:
article.format-standard {
background-color: #e3f4f9;
}
You can choose any colour you like, of course: https://0to255.com/
Since you already have Jetpack installed, a simple way to add custom CSS like this is to activate the Custom CSS module. This way, your CSS won't be overwritten when you update the theme.
I am also trying to add a 'related content' widget / plugin into the layout so it runs down the sides within my posts - is this possible, rather than just at the end of posts?!
That would be something you'd need to ask the plugin developer. I can't think of where I've seen that before.
