Title: Featured Image Post Background
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Featured Image Post Background

 *  [rsaeks82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsaeks82/)
 * (@rsaeks82)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-background/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am using the twentyfourteen theme and wondering if there is a way to customize/
   remove the background of a featured image appearing as the dev.post-thumbnail.
   If I have an image that is not the full size of the box I get a grey lined background
   behind the image as shown below:
 * [http://i57.tinypic.com/919h11.png](http://i57.tinypic.com/919h11.png)
 * I do have a child theme setup with the style.css working as expected with a few
   other small adjustments but this one has me puzzled. Thanks!

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 *  [Hannes Salen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hannes-salen/)
 * (@hannes-salen)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-background/#post-4842375)
 * The easiest way to do that is to change the size of your image to 1038*576px,
   that way it fils the complete space for the featured image.
 *  [helpfulsubjects](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helpfulsubjects/)
 * (@helpfulsubjects)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-background/#post-4842388)
 * I had the same issue. So I installed the free plugin: [http://wordpress.org/plugins/fourteen-extended/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/fourteen-extended/)
 * It takes care of that, plus other issues with Twenty Fourteen theme.
 * Once you install it and enable it and so on…
 * Go to your admin panel (left panel):
    1) Appearances 2) Customize 3) TwentyFourteen
   Content Options “tab” 4) Check to remove whitespace… or remove background color…
   5) Repeat step 4 under the “General Options “tab” And that should fix that.
 * I also opted this setting, perhaps you may like it:
    Check to show full width
   in single post (I kind of like that feature enabled for just the posts, but not
   the home page.)
 *  Thread Starter [rsaeks82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsaeks82/)
 * (@rsaeks82)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-background/#post-4842403)
 * Hannes – We are going to be having a variety of individuals adding content of
   various skill levels and having them find the right size image is not going to
   be something they will want to do.
 * helpful – Thanks for the tip. I tried those settings and was unable to get it
   to work. Using that plugin once I made any change my ‘max_posts’ => 3, variable
   is no longer honored and I’m back to displaying up to 6 featured items.
 * Thinking it may be easier to find a different theme that will work as I would
   like it.
 *  [Elvis1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elvis1973/)
 * (@elvis1973)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-background/#post-4842632)
 * rsaeks82,
    I had the same problem but after some help in the forums, the code
   below took care of the issue (just make sure to empty your browser cache)
 * .post-thumbnail {
    background: transparent !important; } a.post-thumbnail:hover{
   background-color: transparent !important; }
 * .featured-content {
    background-image: none !important; }

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Elvis1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elvis1973/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-image-post-background/#post-4842632)
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