How to set a default background

[andym119]

I run a multisite and I would like to set a default background for each theme.

If I set the default background in the css, users cant't overwrite it in admin > appearance > background

Is there a code snippet for adding a default background or background-image in my functions.php child themes.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

Have you checked this - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-default-background-image-repeat-in-multisite-child-theme and http://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-background-image-in-multisite-not-working

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[andym119]

Hi Davinder, thanks for the reply.

Yes I have tried that as well as things like:

$defaults = array(
	'default-color'          => '000000',
	'default-image'          => '',
	'default-repeat'         => '',
	'default-position-x'     => '',
	'wp-head-callback'       => '',
	'admin-head-callback'    => '',
	'admin-preview-callback' => ''
);
add_theme_support( 'custom-background', $defaults );

$args = array(
	'default-color' => '000000',
	'default-image' => get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/background.jpg',
);
add_theme_support( 'custom-background', $args );

But that only sets the background ready in appearance > background, users have to click save for it to take affect on the front end.

This works on the front end by default, by using css in the functions.php but again, users can't overwrite it in appearance > background:

add_custom_background('set_theme_background');
function set_theme_background() {
	echo "<style type='text/css'>";	 
		echo "body { background-color: #000000;}";
	echo "</style>";
}

Is there a way of putting a conditional to the above code so it applies the above only if there is no background set in appearance > background.

Thanks in advance

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