Change Twenty twelve theme background color

Question

I use the twenty twelve theme and I would like to change the background color manually by modifying the right files in the plugins folder. However, I can not find what to change in the style.css file. I even tried to modify the background color through the Wordpress interface to #e50000. After that, I looked for a line containing e50000 in my wordpress directory, but there seems to be none.

I can't figure out which line to change in my wordpress directory to change the background color.

Answer 1

The background is a option. You can set colors and also images. See in the Administration area, Appearance --> Background

Also you can use the Live Preview link on the theme and customize the background and other otpions.

Answer 2

Changing the theme background color can be done with the build in theme customizer. Go to themes->customize. On the left you will see the customize options.
In the colors tab you will find the background color.

No need to code this ;)

Answer 3

When you change the background color through the dashboard (as mentioned by @bueltge), it is echo'd directly into the site head using <style> tags. You can override the background color in your style.css by setting it on the body element:

body {
    background-color: #efefef !important;
}

The !important part ensures that the color specified in style.css overrides the one set in the dashboard.

Answer 4

Easy. In the twentytwelve theme, search for this:

.site {
    padding: 0 24px;
    padding: 0 1.714285714rem;
    background-color: #888;
}

And change the background-color to what you'd like it to be.