I can no longer customize the background on my blog

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  nikigaliano · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 5:20 am

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  Hi. I haven’t been using my blog, and today I decided to change it up again. I changed the background as usual, then later on I tried to change it again, and there is no longer a “background” choice on the appearance menu. It’s gone.

  I searched for how to change the background, and it said to click a rectatangle on the customize menu, but the rectangle is not coming up. I have tired using several different blog themes that I have used in the past (all with customizeable backgrounds) and I am unable to change any of them.

  Help!!

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  realtorbloghb · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 5:29 am

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  I’m having the same issue.

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  designsimply · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 1:04 am

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  Thanks for reporting this! I’m looking into it.

  For most themes, you can use the rectangle option you mentioned. If your theme doesn’t have that option, you can temporarily get to the background page by replacing “mygroovysite” with your WordPress.com blog name in this link:

  https://mygroovysite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-background

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  designsimply · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 1:36 am

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  The Background option should be back in Appearance now.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 1:44 am

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  Thanks designsimply,

  I just found your notice on the thread Custom Background that the issue had been resolved. Custom header and background options are back in the Appearance menu for me. Thank you.

  In case it happens again, Custom header can be also be reached at

  https://mygroovysite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=custom-header

  Before I found your notice I’d begun a collection of threads dealing with the disappearance of either the custom header link or the custom background link, or both, from dashboard Appearance menu. From the last 20 hours of support threads:

  1. I can no longer customize the background on my blog (this thread, 20 hours ago)

  2. Custom Background (19 hours ago)

  3. HEADER vanished from Dashboard menu (18 hours ago)

  4. my dashboard has changed – I can no longer find a way to change my header image (16 hours ago)

  5. What happened to Appearance –> Header? (5 hours ago)

  6. changing background / border color (2 hours ago)

  7. How do I remove a background image? (2 hours ago)

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  designsimply · Member · Dec 4, 2014 at 1:56 am

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  > Before I found your notice I’d begun a collection of threads dealing with the disappearance of either the custom header link or the custom background link

  Thanks! I’ll take a look at those. I used a tag to sort them all into one view: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/appearance-background-option-missing (I saw background reported first) :)