𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 — 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 Skool ships one page background, and it is the same for everyone. The Background feature replaces it with something you pick: thirteen ready-made gradients and mesh blends (Aurora, Sunset, Ocean, Midnight, Candy, Mint and more), a two-colour gradient you mix yourself with a free angle, an image you upload, or a photo that changes every single day. Four daily-photo sources are available: Bing Daily, Windows Spotlight, Wikimedia Picture of the Day and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each fetches a fresh image once a day, so the page looks different every morning without you touching a setting. Preview thumbnails load for all sources up front — including the ones you have not selected — so you see the actual picture before choosing. The feature unlocks with your level in the Skool Extensions community. Level 3 opens the Background itself along with all gradients, your own colours and your own image. The daily-photo sources follow: Bing and Spotlight at level 4, Wikimedia and NASA at level 5. Locked tiles stay visible with a grey wash and a level badge — click the badge and you land on the community leaderboard, where you can see your standing and what the next level takes. Two sliders control how the page sits on top of the image. Transparent cards sets how much of the background shows through Skool's cards and panels, and Blurred controls how soft the photo behind them gets. Both update live while you drag, and dark mode keeps its own slightly stronger opacity so the balance between the two modes survives a single slider. On photo backgrounds, readability is handled for you: the text colour is chosen by real WCAG contrast against the image rather than a rough brightness guess, and text sitting directly on the background — native header links, the pin strip footer — gets a fine outline so it stays legible over busy areas. Gradients and mesh blends are left alone; they do not need it.

𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 — 𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗮𝗯 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 Skool tracks who referred each new member, but that attribution stays hidden in the admin member list — your community never sees who actually brings people in. The Affiliate Leaderboard turns that data into a public ranking: a tab in your community's navigation that shows which members have referred the most new members, with gold, silver and bronze medals for the podium. The unlock is a community-level decision by the owner. As a VIP owner, you flip on "Affiliate Leaderboard" in the Extension Settings and pick which of your communities get the tab. From that moment, every member with the Extension — including free users — sees the Affiliate Leaderboard tab on every page of your community, not just on the Leaderboards page. Members don't need to configure anything; the tab just appears. The board mirrors Skool's own leaderboard layout with two ranking columns — 30-day and All-time — each listing the top referrers with avatar, name, how many members they brought in, and the commission they earned with them (the referred members' payments times the affiliate percentage locked in when they joined). Names link to their Skool profiles, and your own row is highlighted in green if you're on the board. The community owner is deliberately left out of the ranking — their referrals aren't part of the affiliate competition. A context line shows how many of your members joined via referral in total and when the data was last updated — so a young affiliate program with only a handful of tracked referrals is presented honestly instead of looking broken. As the owner you also choose who gets to see it — separately for every community you unlock: just you, or you and all your members (Extension users). The choice sits next to each selected community in the Extension Settings, and it is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the interface — in private mode, members never see the tab at all.