Changing Background Colors

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  koolbeanz247 · Member · Jan 7, 2018 at 1:51 am

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  Hi. I wanna change the background and colors on my site. But when I go to customize then Colors and backgrounds I don’t see any options for changing colors or backgrounds? Or Is is it only for upgraded wordpress plans

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  staff-frank · Staff · Jan 7, 2018 at 10:18 am

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  Hi there,

  If you go to the Customizer in Colors & Backgrounds, you have two other palettes that you can choose which change the whole color scheme of your site.

  Please note that Twenty Thirteen does not have support for custom background colors in the header.
  https://wordpress.com/theme/twentythirteen

  To change the header background color of your theme, you will need to use Custom CSS which is a feature of the WordPress.com Premium and WordPress.com Business plans. Custom CSS allows you to change colors of specific elements.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/

  Your other option may be to find another theme that gives you more control over the background colors.

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  pauljacobson · Staff · Jan 7, 2018 at 2:01 pm

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  Hi

  Just to add to what staff-frank suggested: if you do have the option of adding custom CSS in the Customizer, it looks like you can target the .site class with some CSS to change the site’s background color.

  For example, if you want to change the background color of your site to beige (if you’re not familiar with CSS colors, 147 Colors has a range of colors to choose from), you could try something like this:

  .site {
    background-color: beige;
  }

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  koolbeanz247 · Member · Jan 10, 2018 at 12:00 am

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  I don’t have any of these options on my site when I go to color and backgrounds. Thats why I was asking if its only for upgraded wordpress plans

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  koolbeanz247 · Member · Jan 19, 2018 at 10:06 pm

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  I don’t have any of these options on my site when I go to color and backgrounds. Thats why I was asking if its only for upgraded wordpress plans