The Custom Post Background WordPress Plugin
This plugin was designed by a college buddy named David Sherret who lives over on DavidSherret.com. He may or may not be open to suggestions for changing the plugin.
The Custom Post Background plugin for WordPress adds a great deal of visual customization ability to your blog posts and page appearances. It allows you to easily change the background of individual blog posts/pages using CSS or an image URL (with or without a x/y/both repeat).
At the main menu, CPB lists all of your pages/posts and displays any background settings that are set. For any page, clicking on the edit button will open up a sub-menu with fields where you can then make your background customizations.
As you can see, you can change the background with CSS/URL of image to apply to only the background of the post, only on the background of the home/main page, or both pages.
The ”Color” field option allows you to quickly make background changes using the background-color CSS code. You can enter any color (such as “red,” “blue,” “green”) or enter a hex value, like: #A9A7A7. You can also change the whole page background (not just the post background) of any individual post with the ”Display as page background on post page” option.
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anyone got a solution to making the background images resize as the window is resized?
I have the exact same question. I either need to center the image or have it resize to the size of the browser window. Wish that was an option.
background-position: center top;
Add that to as custom css in the particular backgrounds settings.
I also use: background-attachment: fixed; …keeps it from scrolling with the page.
Upload backgrounds at 1680 wide.
Pay attention to background subject so it fits your design.
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any thoughts to hooking this us with the supersized.js http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/
that would be a sweet combo for the folks looking for full screen.
anyone developing this anymore?
WP Last Updated: 2009-3-3 needs some lovin’
thx, see where it goes.
very nice plugin. is it possible to have the background image that shows up behind the post also show up behind the post title?
many thanks
philip
I feel like an idiot. I have installed CPB, but I can not see the sub-menu with the options to customize CPB.
I go to pages >> click on page >> edit button and nothing there is not CPB, neither for posts.
And yes, CPB plugin is activated
Hello,
When editing an individual post I don’t see the options either. I run a multi-author site and don’t give them the option for ‘settings’.
For this to work I need this accessible on the post/page edit screen. I am at 3.01 of wordpress. I think this would be an awesome plugin if it would work this way, are there any plans, or is this even possible?
go to settings on the left panel in administrator this plugin is listed there. You click on it. then it opens up a list of stuff hit the edit button next to what you want
Does this plugin have an option which would allow an image to appear in the background just once near the top of the page, rather than repeating and tiled?
Yes! This plugin allows one to enter custom css code for each page’s background display. ERGO you could add:
background-position: center top;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
Hi:
I don’t actually “use” this plug in anymore. But, if I deactivate or delete it, the pages made since it was installed repeat (not the option I want). It looks like I want now, but I would rather not do the following with each new page:
Go to Custom Post Background (on Settings)
Click Edit for the page
Then click cancel for the page
Doing those three things “fixes” the repeat option, otherwise, that’s the default (repeating).
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance for your help!
David
I’m having trouble getting images to show on anything other than static pages. The blog index, individual blog pages, and homepage won’t show the images. Anyone having this problem or know why it might be happening?
When you use a page as home page you can change its background and even blog page.
Awesome plugin!!
Is there a way to change the category-pages background?
Thanks,
Nicole
It will be very nice.
I tried to add a filed to cat add/edit (through this plugin) and get image for the category. I did successful but couldn’t to save field. Somebody describe it. Thanks
I’m having an issue where the list of pages that I can edit the background has many pages with blank names. I do not have posts or pages with blank names so I’m not sure why this is happening. I have uninstalled the plugin and reinstalled with the same issue. where is this data stored in the database? I would like to completely purge all the data and start from scratch.
Please someone help me?
This is a terrific plugin but I need help.
Thanks Chris for this plugin, I didn’t know about it till now. I can modify this plugin so it will fit with my own ideas. Hope everything goes smooth.
Good luck and take care Chris.
Got this error when going to the settings page
There are currently no backgrounds. Please add one below.
Nice plugin..thanks for sharing man!
Is there a way to make this functionality available to a different user-level than admin? I’d like my client to work on this herself, instead of calling me. Integrating it under the appearance tab would probably work best. Thanks.
For those interested: change line 11 of custom-post-back_admin.php number 8 to 7 to enable an editor to use this plugin.
Thank you Filly
Thanks for the plugin. I have been using it for a while, but now suddenly it disappeared from my settings list. Please can anybody help?
Thanks
Hi, I’d like to second Alicia’s comment above. I just updated the plugin and though it is activated it had vanished from the settings list, and does not appear on any of the side lists. Please help. Love the plugin. Also is there any reason why I can change the background of every page BUT the homepage?
It disappeared from my settings list too. And I use this great plug-in all the time. Help!
yeah this is good little plugin. Currently using on a clients site
Another dissapearance here -> After updating to WP 3.1.3 it wouldn’t turn up in my settings list again.
Oops, apparently I missed something. It appears in the extra fields in page editing now. Excuse me for my former post. |-b
I’ve downloaded your plugin. I see the background options below the post/page editor box. I’ve tried to set a background color and a background image separately and neither works when i update the post. Any suggestions?
I like your plugin but the template has to be set at default or the background won’t work. I have my template set to blog so all my posts automatically go on the blog page. How can I have his setting and get the backgrounds to appear on the blog page as well as the post pages.
Wonderfull plugin, after few twiks i have random background on page in my own and over it i have some links and logo.
MANY THANKS ! saved me a lot of time !!!
Kuba
Hi, Is there any way to give fade in effect to background image while loading the page.
Thanks
By passing the image to jQuery to load it first then after document loaded fade it out.
Thanks for your reply. What I want is when I open the website or visit to any other page background image fades-in in 3-4 secs and stays there. Do you have any suggestion about the Jquery code for this.
Hi there,
I have installed the plugin but if I update a post or page with images (either Image from Media or Image from URL), it simply reverts to Disabled.
I have it working on my local bitnami site and it was working on the site before I refreshed it (using Backupbuddy). I’m thinking permissions but I’m not sure where to start really.
Have you seen this happen before?
Very nice and useful plugin.
I’ve changed and extended plugin to have full stretch background on the page. Done with jQuery to have full sized BG. On my website you can see plugin in use.
Thanks buddy.
Could you upload the updated plugin please?
With power of jQuery we can have BG slideshows on the page.
May be this is will be good on the next version of this plugin…
Okay, I found the perfect solution for having a fullscreen image with ratio, simply put this into the custom field:
background-position: center top;
background-attachment: fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
Everything works, it’s wonderful – but my only question is how or at least where do I set a margin or padding so the text in my box isn’t right up against the edge? I tried it in the plug-in’s css editing box and it did not work. I simply put:
{padding: 25 25 25 25;}
Do I put this here or does it need to go up in the html editing box?
Hey there,
Great work on the plugin, results are great (www.bufusanna.com) but the only thing I don’t know how to fix, is how to get backgrounds to display nicely on iPhone and iPad.
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!