Blog background has turned black

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  kimberlywillard · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:14 pm

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  I just checked my blog and the background has turned black. It’s supposed to be white. Can you tell me why this has happened and what I can do about it?
  Thanks for your help,

  Kimberly Willard

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  wadekwon · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:17 pm

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  Same here:

  Theme: Vigilance (unaltered)

  http://birminghamblogging.com

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  dreneemoore · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:17 pm

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  Kimberly, the same thing happened with my blog post today, am waiting for response from WordPress.

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:19 pm

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  Could you check to see if your Appearance → Theme Options page has the right setting and pres the Save Options button there?

  We’ll also look into what may be causing the trouble.

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  wadekwon · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:25 pm

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  I’ve never touched the Theme Options — I’m not on the paid custom CSS/theme plan.

  So looking at it, it’s difficult to tell if it’s set properly or not.

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:27 pm

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  We’re looking into this now. But you can probably fix it immediately in your blog by going to Appearance → Theme Options, checking to make sure the Light option is selected for the color scheme, and pressing the Save Options button.

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  wadekwon · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:29 pm

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  From what I can tell, whatever color settings that were in place for the last 3 years (background, sidebar background, text background) have all changed without me (sole admin) touching it.

  I’ve fixed it so that it’s legible again.

  Now, the question is: How do I get all my original colors back?

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 7:33 pm

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  Okay, the bug is fixed. So you shouldn’t have to save options to fix it any more.

  @wadekwon can you refresh your home page and let me know if the colors are still wrong?

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  wadekwon · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 8:19 pm

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  They are still wrong. It’s because I made the temporary fix to make it legible.

  What should I do? (I’m guessing my Export backups don’t have the color settings in them.)

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 8:28 pm

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  @wadekwon, I don’t think we have an backup for just theme option settings and you’re right that they wouldn’t have been saved in a content backup using Tools → Export.

  I did look at http://birminghamblogging.com/ and the colors look good to me. Do they not look right to you? Here is what I see: http://d.pr/B2Vh

  Can you make sure you have included the “#” symbol at the beginning of the color codes on your Appearance → Theme Options page?

  Can I help you update the colors to something new that will work or help you approximate what the old colors were if they’re not fixed by updating the “#” symbol in your theme options page?

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  wadekwon · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 8:33 pm

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  I think I was just trying to remember if the background color alone was tweaked, or if the sidebar color was tweaked too (it wasn’t).

  Thank God for Google cache, because I think I can fix the background color based on this.

  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pjs3HWzt3jsJ:birminghamblogging.com/+birminghamblogging+com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 17, 2011 at 8:34 pm

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  You must have fixed it before I checked it! Sorry for the trouble the bug caused for you!