Sidebar color

What theme? I’m guessing Kubrick? (The standard wordpress theme.) If that’s the case, that whole background is an image. Log in, then go to Presentations > Theme Editor. Click on “Header.php” and look for the following code:


body { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg"); }
<?php /* Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not */ if ((! $withcomments) && (! is_single())) { ?>

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } ?>

#header { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickheader.jpg") no-repeat bottom center; }

#footer { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickfooter.jpg") no-repeat bottom; border: none;}

What you’re looking for is this line:


#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>


Comment out that reference and you should be set to go.

Note that the other images intertwine rather nicely with it so if you make a change to that — say, by commenting out that line — it may look odd on the page.

Any more questions I’ll be glad to help with, insofar as I can. (I did the same thing on my site, eliminating the gray bar.)