Title: Changing background on theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Changing background on theme

 *  [jonnysopotiuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonnysopotiuk/)
 * (@jonnysopotiuk)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-background-on-theme/)
 * Hi wordpress community,
 * I’m hoping you can help me out. I’ve downloaded a theme for my self-hosted blog
   and I am trying to make a simple change to the background that the theme comes
   with. It is only a slight colour change to the background image the theme provided.
 * I’ve edited the original image in photoshop, added the new file to the theme 
   image folder, re-installed the theme and changed the style.css file to reflect
   the change. The new background image does not show up on my website and the background
   is now blank with the theme background colour showing. Any suggestions on what
   I’m doing wrong?
 * Thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-background-on-theme/#post-3334593)
 * Can you post a link to your site? It’s often much easier to troubleshoot if we
   can look at what’s going on live.
 *  Thread Starter [jonnysopotiuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonnysopotiuk/)
 * (@jonnysopotiuk)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-background-on-theme/#post-3334594)
 * Here it is: [http://www.jonnysopotiuk.ca](http://www.jonnysopotiuk.ca).
 *  [knaveenchand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knaveenchand/)
 * (@knaveenchand)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-background-on-theme/#post-3334599)
 * This is the css you need to edit:
 *     ```
       body {
       background-image:url(http://your-website.com/wp-content/uploads/your-image.png);
       background-repeat:repeat-x;
       }
       ```
   
 * Two things:
    1. Try to give complete path of the image inside the bracket. if you have uploaded
       to your uploads folder, you can also see the path when you click on EDIT in 
       your Media.
    2. Secondly, try to remove `background-repeat:repeat-x;` if you don’t want your
       background to repeat.
 * Hope this helps.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-background-on-theme/#post-3334599)
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