what size background image works best? I have tried over 100 images and gifs, and they all get stretched, and blurry. usually 1/2 the image isn’t even viewable

You’re going to want something fairly large in dimension and in a landscape orientation (but watch out for file size too, you don’t want to force everyone to download a huge image). For example, I accidentally took this photo of my couch. The dimensions are 1920 x 1440 and it fits my screen as a ba…

[image] awesomerobot: You’re going to want something fairly large in dimension and in a landscape orientation Can we add this tip to the UI for the feature, somewhere?

[image] awesomerobot: You can change this behavior using CSS for the category, for example: body.category-example { i dont see anywhere under the category where CSS is. [image] or am i looking in the wrong places?

All of your CSS is controlled under admin > customize > themes, by “CSS for the category” I meant that you can target a specific category because we add CSS classes to the page when relevant. So in the case of a category named “Other” we add the .category-other class to the page’s body tag, so you …

Both vary a lot based on what effect you’re trying to achieve… For background images… probably as wide as you can get while keeping the file size reasonable (say maybe under 150k or so? a service like https://tinypng.com/ can help reduce filesize). Probably in the range of 1440px - 1920px wide… Fo…

[image] awesomerobot: a service like https://tinypng.com/ can help reduce filesize Since there are some limitations with this website, I sometimes use https://pngquant.org/ . It has an executable and will do the same job without these limitations, and I think it uses the same compression metho…

Help with category background images

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) March 2, 2020, 7:56pm 8

What is a recommended size for Category background say width?

Also looking for recommended sizing for doing a Category Image.

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Help with category background images

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