Custom Background Changer

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48 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 26 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 24% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 13 months ago; the previous band took 23 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ kineticartist

   7.9y ago

   First off thei sis an excellent plugin and works a real treat on my clients websites it just lacks the ability to set the cover or contain properties and the css offered above does not always work where a body declaration has already been implemented as in tempera theme by cryout creations to make the contain or cover work the followinf CSS is offered up: body{ -webkit-background-size: cover !important; -moz-background-size: cover !important; -o-background-size: cover !important; background-size: cover !important; } the !important are only needed if your theme is overiding your body css to run the contain or cover

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2. ★★★★★ worldmaker

   8.6y ago

   <p>Newbie here, just migrating several old web sites to WP and needed unique images per page so found this as the best option of a handful of such plugins.</p> <p>One good feature is that it appears on the Edit Page section in Admin, so easy to manage.</p> <p>Seems to do everything needed with one little niggle – the images don’t responsively scale upwards (I test on a 40″ monitor for these kind of situations).</p> <p>Note that images do responsively scale downwards.</p> <p>Having a “Scale to Fit” option would seem the next step in development to allow for images of all sizes?</p> <p>Similarly a “Fixed Scale” option for those wanting to use more precise pixel-perfect styling might help too?</p> <p>Keep up the good work, this IS a nice neat plugin.</p> <p>I’ll probably be using this on all my eleven site upgrades over the next few months.</p> <p>=====<br />Up-date (still a newbie on all this) after a few week’s fooling around.<br />Best fix to scaling BG image is add the CSS for</p> <p>body{<br />background-size:cover;<br />}</p> <p>Or</p> <p>body{<br />background-size:contain;<br />}</p> <p>I’m guessing this depends more on the theme’s coding than this plugin’s function.</p> <p>=====</p> <p>Up-date (February 2023)  Finally had to bite one bullet and update my sites to newer PHP (8.1) and this looks like it’s finally broken the plugin with: “Warning: Undefined variable $textdomain…” errors appearing.</p> <p>Looks like I will finally have to move to a newer plugin.</p> This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by worldmaker. This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by worldmaker. This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by worldmaker. Reason: Up-dating the readers

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3. ★★★★★ mynerdywebguy

   9.1y ago

   cuts right thru some red tape where some themes require paid versions to have a background image

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4. ★★★★★ danielepais

   9.6y ago

   No Frills on this plugin. It does “exactly” what it claims. Well done developers.

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5. ★★★★★ GT

   10.1y ago

   The greatest background plugin, easy to use and manage. It does exactly what it says. I’m loving it! Many thanks to developer/s. Great job!

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6. ★★★★★ DaveRobison

   10.3y ago

   Answered Emails, and provided support. Custom backgrounds on specific posts looks good.

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7. ★★★★★ shubhamnema321

   10.4y ago

   site background is looking awesome

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The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (4.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.4 Custom Background Changer <= 3.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62125 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.0 Patched in 4.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-10-11 2K+ → 1K+ down after 686 days in tier
2. 2023-11-25 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2023-11-24 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-11-23 3K+ → 2K+ down after 288 days in tier
5. 2023-02-08 4K+ → 3K+ down

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Custom Background Changer: 1K+ active installs, 4.9★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-background-changer