Title: Custom Backgrounds
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Backgrounds

 *  [emmabg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmabg/)
 * (@emmabg)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-backgrounds/)
 * HI All,
    Due to the super response I got last time – thank you all – I have another
   problem I’m hoping you can help me with – having no experience of web design 
   at all! I’ve added the custom background plugin to my website (serenitytherapies.
   net) and am trying to get the logo (same as the favicon) as a background image
   to fill the whole page and preferably be slightly paler (or translucent?) so 
   you can still see the writing on top of it. Can I do this with the plugin or 
   do I need to write some sort of code? If I need to write the code – can anyone
   explain it really simply for me as I’ve tried reading around the topics but have
   got completely lost! I know you can’t stretch a background image but you can ‘
   fake’ stretch it using divs or something but I have no idea what all this means!
   Apologies for the lack of understanding – hopefully you can consider it a challenge?!
   Many thanks, Emma

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-backgrounds/#post-1548025)
 * > I’ve added the custom background plugin
 * You don’t need a plugin for custom backgrounds in WP 3.0
 * [http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-theme-tip-custom-backgrounds](http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-theme-tip-custom-backgrounds)
 * And you can’t fake a stretch on a background image over a div either. All you
   can do it allow the background to tile.
 *  Thread Starter [emmabg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmabg/)
 * (@emmabg)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-backgrounds/#post-1548083)
 * ah OK. Sorry, I’ve read loads of different forums about putting code in to make
   a seem like it’s stretching, maybe I got this wrong.
 * Maybe I explained myself wrong – I read this post and that is what I’ve done.
 * Sorry for the confusion.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [emmabg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emmabg/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-backgrounds/#post-1548083)
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