mopgrass

Okay, let’s try the static page way.

The static page only sets up the way I want to when I go select “Static Page” and use the Front Page as “Home” and Post Page as “Static.” Any other combination and the page I call “Static” comes out wrong. I tried to make it the home page by choosing it as the Front Page. I went to the Main Menu and added the page I call “Static” to it and put it first. It came out looking fine, but it still wasn’t the Homepage.

As of today, I changed the name from Static to Home and put it first in the main menu, but now it goes to my home URL still looks the same and then I have to select Home to see the page I want to see.

I created a link on my homepage… it’s labeled “Static”. If you click it, it takes you to another page that shows EXACTLY how my home page is supposed to look. If I could get my homepage to be that, it’s be perfect. It won’t. I tried.

We are getting on the right track. Your code got me results, just not the one I’m looking for. You are trying to change my background and I don’t have the website jargon/vocabulary to explain that I’m not trying to change my background.

Before I ever put a sidebar up, there was an area on my homepage designated for a picture. It was designated to lay on top of some of the background. Not replace it. Not to completely cover it.

I have that crackling ground background on my homepage and other pages. That is supposed to remain. The picture is to lay over only part of it. A featured image.

For an example, the picture used to take up the space on the home page that the “About Us” page uses for all my text and picture. Replacing the crackling is something I can do now without code. But I need the picture to *partially* overlay the front page, not substitute the entire background.

I’m hope I’m explaining my issue correctly.

I do have a background image that I use instead of the boring color provided, but my “featured image” doesn’t show up on top of that.

When I entered the the code you provided last time, in my Additional CSS section, the background went white. I left my webpage like that so you could see.

https://tobinband.com/wp-admin/customize.php?return=%2Fwp-admin%2Ftheme-editor.php%3Ffile%3Dstyle.css%26theme%3Dmanage-issue-based-magazine%26scrollto%3D7081%26updated%3Dtrue&autofocus%5Bcontrol%5D=background_image

We’re getting somewhere now. It’s at least reacting now. I went to Appearance-> Customize -> Additional CSS and pasted body.home { background: url(‘https://tobinband.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/book-glasses-red-read-159542.jpeg)!important; } and your other proposed code. In both instances it turns the whole front page white… and it removes background picture. Hey, it’s something. Nothing happens when I put it in the code in the Editor section. Still not quite there yet.

The 404 errors will have to wait for another day, but I’ve taken note.

If that code is correct, I must be putting it in the wrong place.

I’m just going into my CSS under Appearance –> Editor and pasting it at the very, very bottom, below all other codes. Should I be targeting a more specific spot?