Although Cutline shines through its usage of Whitespace, many times one wants to add a background to a theme. Adding a background to Cutline is one of the easier things to do when it comes to modding, all you have to do is wrap the complete content container in a new div.
You need to edit your header.php and the footer.php for this and add the new container and background to the stylesheet of your theme.
Lets look at the recently released Cutline 1.1 Blue how you can add your favorite background.
Cutline 1.1 Blue has a gradient image as background, completed with the background color.
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14 responses so far ↓
1 nopstar // Oct 29, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I apologize for posting this here, but there has been no answer to the Cutline 2.0 post.
Your Demo isn’t working… I would love to upgrade but would like to see where I’m about to leap to.
Thanks,
Nopstar
2 LiveMtl // Oct 29, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Instructions on how to do this would be nice..
3 LiveMtl // Oct 29, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Instructions on how to do this would be nice….
4 Donna // Oct 30, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Why is there no responses to any post this is very discouraging. We all love the theme or we would not be using it. But why no help
5 Butler // Oct 30, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I like the white background way more than that blue on the cutline/mods website.
6 Jay McGillicuddy // Nov 4, 2007 at 9:41 pm
He must be very busy, I wish I knew how to change the background color too.
7 Law School Blog // Nov 5, 2007 at 8:01 pm
*Cough* Cutline v2 demo page not working *Cough*
8 tricky // Nov 11, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I really would like a follow up on this with instructions as well
9 MarkyMark // Nov 12, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Have you guys looked at Chris Pearson’s new Neoclassical theme at http://pearsonified.com/theme/neoclassical/?
10 aaron thompson // Nov 15, 2007 at 10:58 pm
hello, Im using wordpress and cutline that I’m now getting hosted and there is not a custom image header option like there was when I was using cutline a theme for my wordpress blog. Any help?
11 Missy // Jan 8, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hi—Markymark: The neoclassical theme is nice. I just like my sidebars both on the right, as opposed to split.
But it is sharp, crisp and has a 3-D’ish quality to it. Thanxs for the link to it.
P.S. I’m presently using the Cutline 3 column on my vegetarian blog, Groovy Veg, and am in the process of making some minor tweaks to it.
12 Publicidad En Internet // Mar 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Hi,
When will you fix the cutline 1.1 blue demo?
13 Kerry // Apr 6, 2008 at 12:08 am
Running WP 2.5 + Cutline 2.1 - I don’t know a lick of CSS, and tried for a while to figure out this background stuff.
In header.php, above I defined a new container and closed it out all the way at the bottom of the file.
In footer.php, above I defined the same container and closed it out right above
Then, in style.css, below /*—:[ core layout elements ]:—*/ I defined the style for my new container:
#pagebody {width: 896px; padding: 20px; background: #FFF; margin: 20px auto 10px auto; text-align: center; }
Obviously the color for this container needs to be different than the color specified at the top of style.css under: body { background: #333333; }
I’m posting this here for the CSS illiterate like myself.
14 teddy // Apr 21, 2008 at 9:17 pm
what lines are you adding the container in? I cannoot get this to work.
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