Background of Content Area: Can It Be Changed

Unfortunately this is pretty complicated since there are different backgrounds for different templates for that area.

The problem is that on archive pages the content area has no background and individual posts do; on single posts the content area is white. You’d have to do some overriding and cascading for this to work properly. Open style.css and search for #content, then try changing the background property.

Hey it’s not that hard, I created a child theme (instruction on WordPress site, just search for that topic) then I added this code to my style.css child theme sheet.
#content {
background: #5f3819; */works on main content but not sidebar*/
}

Dont’ forget if you create a child theme style sheet you need to ‘activate’ that theme as per WP childtheme instructions