Title: Menu Background Color
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Menu Background Color

 *  [happywhiskerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happywhiskerz/)
 * (@happywhiskerz)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/)
 * How do I remove the background color from everything I put on the sidebar menus?
   Using Magazine basic theme and don’t know html. website is happywhiskerz.com

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946791)
 * Do you have a place in the dashboard to hold CSS modifications, other than in
   the theme’s files?
 *  Thread Starter [happywhiskerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happywhiskerz/)
 * (@happywhiskerz)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946792)
 * I don’t know..I don’t see CSS on the dashboard options
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946793)
 * Install this [Custom CSS Manager plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/).
 * Then use [its section of the dashboard](http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/screenshot-1.jpg?r=704634)
   to hold this CSS:
 *     ```
       .widget {
        border: 0;
        background: none;
        box-shadow: none;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [happywhiskerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happywhiskerz/)
 * (@happywhiskerz)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946794)
 * thanks – will try, but website is a disaster now because someone who did not 
   know wordpress hit the update all button and wiped out all custom settings that
   I paid someone to do. Then I had to pay to get it fixed.
    Site is not backed 
   up, so I’m overly cautious about installing/updating anything at this point. 
   should I go to my web hoster first and have site backed up before doing this?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946795)
 * Sounds like the person who you paid to modify the theme did not know what they
   were doing. Modifications should not be made to the originating theme’s files;
   hence why I recommended downloading the Custom CSS Manager plugin.
 * Here are some recommended professionals: [http://directory.codepoet.com](http://directory.codepoet.com).
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946796)
 * > should I go to my web hoster first and have site backed up before doing this?
 * Sure, that couldn’t hurt.
 *  Thread Starter [happywhiskerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happywhiskerz/)
 * (@happywhiskerz)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946798)
 * thank you! yes, have learned the hard way…
    will make sure site’s backed up first
   and then do the CSS plugin.

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 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [happywhiskerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happywhiskerz/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-color-1/#post-3946798)
 * Status: not resolved

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