tomgelder

Yep that was it, needed to update.
Thanks!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by tomgelder.

Thanks for the response, Otto.

That’s about what I was starting to figure. My host being too overprotective. I’ll let them know what’s up.

Thank you very much Charles!

The StackExchange thread

Got it answered over on Stack Exchange.
I quote from user s_ha_dum:

It sounds like you just need to remove support for the custom background color.

remove_theme_support( 'custom-background' );

You will probably need to hook it to get it to run after the parent functions.php

function disable_bg_wpse_97248() {
    remove_theme_support( 'custom-background' );
}
add_action('after_setup_theme','disable_bg_wpse_97248',100)

I just added that function to my child’s functions.php and it worked like a charm.