WordPress built-in Custom Background

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Is it possible to enable the "Custom Background" function of WordPress (add_custom_background() ) in my own theme-options page?

Thx for helping!

Horttcore · Answer 1 · 2011-11-14 09:53:02Z

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You have to include the theme_support in your functions.php Simply add this to your functions.php

add_custom_background();

answered Nov 14 '11 at 9:53

	Thx for your answer, but you misunderstood my question. I am developing a theme with a massive theme options page. There the user should be able to change the background. So Wordpress has this function out-of-the-box - but if I add your snippet, the custom background is available in the appearance menu. But i want the "Custom Background Feature" in a separate Tab in my own "Theme Options" - Page, with its own Menu in the Backend. I hope, you'll understand my (bad) english. ;-) – Markus Schober Nov 14 '11 at 10:08
	Puh then you should look what the functions does and maybe load that code into your theme. But I don't see a point in that, except that you have more work to do... Simply put your theme options all in design submenu and you are done?! – Horttcore Nov 14 '11 at 11:05
	I would advise against it, it's bad user interface design, it makes all the guides useless, and it's unnecessary work for you ( and complicates your own UI ). To implement this you'll be fighting an uphill battle, and you'll probably have to redo it from scratch in 3.3/3.4 when they change the way options are submitted ( no more POST to options.php ) – Tom J Nowell Nov 14 '11 at 11:44
	Will they change the way options are submitted? – Markus Schober Nov 14 '11 at 13:18
	@TomJNowell I think you're right. WP has this feature out-of-the-box and i will use it. Maybe they will improve this feature in later version to be more customizable. thx for you thought! – Markus Schober Nov 15 '11 at 7:23

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