WordPress 3.0: Activating the Background Editor
by Bandicoot Marketing on | Posted in Tutorials | 17 comments
Adding a color or image to your Web site’s background is not a very complicated thing to do if you are familiar with CSS. Luckily for those out there who know nothing about CSS, WordPress 3.0 introduces a simple admin user-interface that makes it extremely simple to select a color or image for your background. There are even controls for image position, repeating and attachment.
![Background Editor](https://bavotasan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/background.jpg)
The new background editor in WordPress 3.0
Activating the background editor only requires that you add one line of code to your theme’s functions.php
file.
if(function_exists('add_custom_background')) add_custom_background();
This will add the “Background” link to your Appearance panel in the wp-admin. Placing it inside the function_exists()
function makes it backwards compatible in case someone uses your theme with WordPress 2.9.
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