Title: WordPress Custom Theme editing problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Custom Theme editing problem

 *  [deathmonkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deathmonkey/)
 * (@deathmonkey)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-custom-theme-editing-problem/)
 * Hi, yesterday I made a custom theme for WordPress after linking it to my site
   by following these instructions:
 * [http://www.webhostingsearch.com/arti…e-tutorial.php](http://www.webhostingsearch.com/arti…e-tutorial.php)
 * This is the blog: [http://www.thewebsiteofdaniel.net/blog](http://www.thewebsiteofdaniel.net/blog)
 * It’s all set up fine and I can change the font and the background colour etc.
   by editing this CSS file:
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name: DeathMonkey
       Theme URI: The Website of Daniel
       Description: My custom WordPress theme
       Version: 1.0
       Author: Daniel Batty
       Author URI: http://www.thewebsiteofdaniel.net
   
       */
   
       body{
       	margin: 0;
       	font-family: Calibri; Arial
       	font-size: 12px;
       	font-color: #ffffff
       	text-align: center;
       	vertical-align: top;
       	background: url("images/bg.png")
       	color: #ffffff;
       }
   
       a:link, a:visited{
       	text-decoration: underline;
       	color: #336699;
       }
   
       a:hover{
       	text-decoration: none;
       }
   
       #wrapper{
       	margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
       	width: 750px;
       	text-align: left;
       }
   
       #header{
       	float: left;
       	width: 750px;
       }
   
       #box{
       	float: left;
       	width: 500px;
       }
   
       .sidebar{
       	float: left;
       	width: 240px;
       	background: #eeeeee;
       	margin: 0 0 0 10px;
       	display: inline;
       }
   
       #footer{
       	clear: both;
       	float: left;
       	width: 750px;
       }
   
       .comments-template{
       	margin: 10px 0 0;
       	border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
       	padding: 10px 0 0;
       }
   
       .comments-template ol{
       	margin: 0;
       	padding: 0 0 15px;
       	list-style: none;
       }
   
       .comments-template ol li{
       	margin: 10px 0 0;
       	line-height: 18px;
       	padding: 0 0 10px;
       	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
       }
   
       .comments-template h2, .comments-template h3{
       	font-family: Georgia, Sans-serif;
       	font-size: 16px;
       }
   
       .commentmetadata{
       	font-size: 12px;
       }
   
       .comments-template p.nocomments{
       	padding: 0;
       }
   
       .comments-template textarea{
       	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Sans-serif;
       	font-size: 12px;
       }
       ```
   
 * I want to set a picture (1280×1024) as my background (the same one as my homepage)
   but it just shows up with a white screen…Likewise, I tried adding in “font-color:#
   NUMBER” to set the font color and yet again, nothing changes… any ideas?

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-custom-theme-editing-problem/#post-1388190)
 * A) you are missing or have misplaced some semicolons
 * B) I can get the image to work with an absolute url.
 * background: url(“[http://thewebsiteofdaniel.net](http://thewebsiteofdaniel.net)**//
   blog/**wp-content/themes/TWOD/images/bg.png”) no-repeat top center;
    _ Note the
   extra slash in all of your urls.
 * //thewebsiteofdaniel.net**//blog/**
 *  Thread Starter [deathmonkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deathmonkey/)
 * (@deathmonkey)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-custom-theme-editing-problem/#post-1388312)
 * Thanks so much! I was getting really frustrated but this did it. 🙂

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [deathmonkey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deathmonkey/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-custom-theme-editing-problem/#post-1388312)
 * Status: not resolved

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