How to add SVG backgrounds to WordPress

By Matt Visiwig Matt Visiwig Portrait Dec 22, 2021

WordPress is a huge ecosystem of plug-and-play components, supporting a diverse set of users with varying technical capabilities.

This complicates adding a simple background to your website, because everyone has unique combinations of themes and plugins.

In the next section below, I will segment some popular WordPress setups to hopefully direct you to the easiest way to add a background to your website.

If you use a page-builder, view the WP Page-builder guide.
If you create custom WordPress themes, view the HTML guide or the CSS guide.
If you are using Gutenberg, here’s how to add an SVG background into Gutenberg

This is an HTML block via Gutenberg (WordPress).

Learn how to display a background, like this!