Hey there,
To make any customization to a theme, you need to setup a child theme. Modifying theme’s main files is not recommended since your changes will be lost when the theme is updated. You can adjust styles of your theme in your theme’s stylesheet, which would be named ‘style.css’. You can read more about child themes here:
https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
Thanks!
Just as it was mentioned, you will need to use a child theme for modifying any theme files. However, if you “ONLY” plan to modify CSS, you can get away with just a custom stylesheet for this. I would recommend a plugin called “Simple Custom CSS“, or, if you are using Jetpack, it has it’s own Custom CSS feature. If you have a child theme setup, then you can add your CSS to the child theme’s style.css file.
The container you will want to create a background image for the content area, has this class applied to it:
.page .site-main,
.single .site-main,
.search .site-main {
background-color: #fff;
}
To create a background image for just pages, then it would be:
.page .site-main {
your background css here
}
It depends on what pages in your site you want this image background on, because there are additional content containers to apply this to. The last code snippet above is just for “pages” and not for blog pages (posts, full post view, categories, etc).
Thank you for the response. I would love to setup a child theme however I don’t really know how to code. Is there by chance a child theme setup for dummies?
Use the link Suyogya posted Child Themes
Then there’s also a tutorial on my site Create a Child Theme for Modifications
