3.7.1 disables stretching background images to full width

[SuzanneL]

I find after updating to 3.7.1, that stretching background images to full width, as I have done on at least two of my sites, has been disabled, no matter whether I do it with a plugin or with HTML/CSS. The background images now just display at their original size, which does not fill the page. The plugin I had been using to do the stretch has now failed with the update to 3.7.1, so I tried two other plugins designed to do it, and they now fail too. Those three plugins are described here - ​http://www.midtnmusic.com/how-to-set-a-full-screen-resizable-background-image-in-wordpress/ In some cases, the plugin is disabled from even allowing the upload of a background image. One of the authors has thrown up his hands and announced he is abandoning the effort.

I tried turning to coding to stretch my backgrounds, following instructions at ​http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/ but those results are even worse, now doing very strange broken things to my backgrounds.

It would be very nice if WordPress just inherently offered to stretch the background to full width, and not just Tile / No Tile - Left, Center, Right. But I would be happy if WordPress just simply re-enabled our work-arounds.

You can see my efforts on my sites here: ​http://SunWebStudio.com & here: ​http://TowerDweller.com

Thank you for your consideration.

[SuzanneL]

Sheesh, no sooner had I posted this, than I was able to make one of the plugins work -- wp-supersized

However, the bug report might still be valid, since this plugin required me to upload using a separate FTP client, or designate other external image source, and did not ask me to use WordPress to upload the image(s).

[helen]

This is probably best first investigated on the ​support forums. If it turns out to be a core bug, as opposed to one in a plugin, please come back and reopen this ticket.