Daily Tip: How to Enable Custom Backgrounds for WordPress 3.0 Themes

Enabling custom backgrounds is probably one of the easiest things you can do to improve a WordPress theme that you’re building or customizing. It takes one small addition to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_custom_background();

Save that and you’ll get Backgrounds added to the Dashboard >> Appearance menu, as shown here.

This will allow you or others using the theme to easily upload a background image and/or set a background color through the WordPress dashboard:

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