How to Add a Background Image in WordPress

Are you looking to add a background image to your site? Background images can be used to make your website look more inviting or engaging for your users as well as aesthetically pleasing. In this video, we will show you how to easily add a background image to your WordPress site.

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For our first method you would want to:

- Go under Appearance, Customize
- Check the customize area for Background image
- Select the image you want to add
- Use the tools to style the image how you like

The other option would be to:

- Use inspect element or a similar option to inspect the code of the page
- Copy the code if there is some already for adding the image
-- If there is no code you would want to check our written article for code you could use
- You would want to replace the url in the code to point to the image you want as your background image.