WP Term Colors

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WP Term Colors

by John James Jacoby

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Description

Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms

WP Term Colors allows users to assign colors to any visible category, tag, or taxonomy term using a fancy color picker, providing a customized look for their taxonomies.

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  • Download and install using the built in WordPress plugin installer.
  • Activate in the “Plugins” area of your admin by clicking the “Activate” link.
  • No further setup or configuration is necessary.
  1. Category Colors

    Category Colors

Does this plugin depend on any others?

No. Not since WordPress 4.4.

Does this create new database tables?

No. There are no new database tables with this plugin.

Does this modify existing database tables?

No. All of WordPress’s core database tables remain untouched.

How do I query for terms via their colors?

With WordPress’s get_terms() function, the same as usual, but with an additional meta_query argument according the WP_Meta_Query specification:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_meta_query/

$terms = get_terms( 'category', array(
    'depth'      => 1,
    'number'     => 100,
    'parent'     => 0,
    'hide_empty' => false,

    // Query by color
    'meta_query' => array( array(
        'key'   => 'color',
        'value' => '#c0ffee'
    ) )
) );

Where can I get support?

The WordPress support forums: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-term-colors/

Where can I find documentation?

https://github.com/stuttter/wp-term-colors/

Doesn't Work

By kshowie on June 19, 2021

Doesn’t Work

Great

By Lindsey (lalindsey) on January 9, 2019

This plugin still work great. I use it all the time as it’s an easy to add option for client’s when they need to color code taxonomies. It even works great with Timber themes. You can easily add it to your templates in PHP using David Cavins’ example. If you are using a theme that is utilizing twig/Timber, you can grab the color in your for loop as easy as: {{ term.meta('color') }};

Works!

By acrashik_ on October 23, 2017

Simple and useful. Working great!

yet another good plugin

By mathieu.pellegrin on March 14, 2017

Another good and simple plugin that just does the job.

Works well with WP's new termmeta table

By David Cavins (dcavins) on September 3, 2016

I needed to save colors for terms, and found that @jjj had already done the work. Accessing the saved colors is pretty straightforward using the new (WP 4.4 or newer) built-in utility function:
$color = get_term_meta( $term_id, 'color', true );

The terms are saved in hex format (#eeee22) so are ready to use once retrieved.

Thanks @jjj.

2.0.1

  • Load installed plugin language packs before translated labels are initialized

2.0.0

  • Remove the WP Term Meta dependency by using term metadata built into WordPress 4.4 and newer
  • Initialize after custom taxonomies are registered
  • Add color-picker styling and improve quick-edit behavior
  • Keep uncolored terms visible when sorting the term list by color
  • Preserve metadata callback compatibility with WordPress 4.4

0.2.0

  • Update base class

0.1.4

  • Update textdomain
  • Update headers & meta

0.1.3

  • Updated metadata UI class

0.1.1

  • Updated form field classes

0.1.0

  • Initial release