Getting Started

Advanced WordPress Backgrounds is a plugin for WordPress that allows adding impressive backgrounds to your blocks. Using this plugin, you can set a color, video, or image as a background. It also allows adding a parallax effect to background images and videos. These backgrounds can be viewed on mobile devices too. The plugin allows to adjust settings to set whether parallax effects or videos will be seen on mobile devices and in certain browsers.

Installing the AWB plugin

How to install the Visual Portfolio plugin:

  • Go to Admin Area > Plugins > Add New.
  • Enter “Advanced WordPress Backgrounds” or “AWB” as a keyword to find it in the list of available plugins. Click on the Install Now button.

Another way to install the plugin is to download it here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-backgrounds/

And then:

  1. Go to Admin Area > Plugins > Add New.
  2. Click on the Upload Plugin button.
  3. Select the downloaded file, and click on the Install Now button.

After the plugin is installed, click on the Activate Plugin button. Go to Admin Area > Plugins and click on the Activate link if it isn’t activated.

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