Best color plugins for WordPress
The most popular color plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Central Color Palette leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of ACF RGBA Color Picker (6K+) and The Events Calendar (4K+). All 100 plugins tagged “color” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 color plugins
- 1.
Central Color PaletteThe most installed color plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 57 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 2.
ACF RGBA Color Picker6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
The Events Calendar4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 61 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 4.
Styleguide2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.0.
- 5.
Special Text Boxes1K+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 21 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.
Comfortable Reading1K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 7.
ACF Color Swatches1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago.
- 8.
Advanced Custom Fields1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 9.
Mark Posts1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 10 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Custom Highlight Color900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
All 100 plugins tagged “color”
Central Color Palette
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,509by Tessa (they/them), AuRise Creative3 years ago
Manage a site-wide central color palette for a uniform look'n'feel! Supports the new block editor, Theme Customizer and many themes and plug …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(57)
- Downloads
- 32/day
ACF RGBA Color Picker
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,856by dreihochzwo1 year ago
A RGBA-Color-Picker field for Advanced Custom Fields
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 27/day
The Events Calendar
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,362by Nexcess1 year ago
Add event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(61)
- Downloads
- 34/day
Styleguide
#4,301by binarymoon2 years ago
Styleguide allows you to customize fonts and colors in WordPress themes through the Customizer - no need to touch any code!
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Special Text Boxes
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,186by minimus1 month ago
Highlights any portion of text as text in the colored boxes.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.4(21)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Comfortable Reading
Down in the last 7 days:24#5,346by Alexandr Ovcharenko9 years ago
Версия сайта для слабовидящих пользователей.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.6(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
ACF Color Swatches
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,500by nickforddesign8 years ago
An add-on for Advanced Custom Fields to allow users to select from a list of color choices. Setting up the field works exactly like setting up a radio …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:1#5,854by Adam Walter4 years ago
Restrict Advanced Custom Fields color picker to a specific subset of colors. Removes color wheel from the field UI so user can't pick other color …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 16/day
Mark Posts
Down in the last 7 days:18#5,929by flymke2 months ago
Mark and highlight posts, pages and posts of custom post types within the posts overview.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(10)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Custom Highlight Color
Down in the last 7 days:17#7,194by Nick Halsey3 months ago
Many devices and browsers provide less-than-ideal colors when selecting text on sites. Users may select text for a variety of reasons, including as a …
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Scroll Styler
Down in the last 7 days:10#7,248by jablonczay2 years ago
Scroll Styler offers a solution to add custom scrollbar style on your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Term Colors
Down in the last 7 days:13#7,915by John James Jacoby27 days ago
Assign colors to categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Night Mode
Down in the last 7 days:27#7,979by markoarula6 years ago
Allow users to change the website style while reading at night, enabling them to easily read and spend more time on your site.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.5(23)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Contextual Adminbar Color
Down in the last 7 days:24#8,726by Jb Audras2 months ago
Use custom admin bar colors and favicons to differentiate your environments (staging/prod)
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 9/day
Variation Swatches for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:42#9,037by WPFactory20 days ago
Provides new WooCommerce type attributes (color,label,image) for creating beautiful variations
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(9)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Colored Admin Post List
Down in the last 7 days:13#9,197by rockschtar1 month ago
Color-code your admin post list by post status. Instantly spot drafts, pending reviews, scheduled, private, and published posts at a glance.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Subscription Options
Down in the last 7 days:7#10,110by freedimensional14 years ago
Adds subscription option icons for your RSS Feed; your FeedBurner Email Service; your Twitter Stream and your Facebook page. Totally user-defined.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Grey Admin Color Schemes
Down in the last 7 days:7#10,176by Greg Ross2 years ago
Grey color schemes for WordPress 3.8's admin area.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Color Change For Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:37#10,721by Element Invader3 years ago
Plugin will help you Replace / Change Colors defined inside Elementor Editor automatically on all pages
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dominant Color
Down in the last 7 days:80#11,332by Liam Gladdy2 years ago
A WordPress plugin to automatically save the dominant color and a color palette for an attachment image into post_meta. Requires: PHP >= 7.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Real Cookie Banner
Down in the last 7 days:3#14,098by Holger Wassenhoven1 month ago
Set up the colors of Real Cookie Banner all in one place.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Awesome Color Palettes
Down in the last 7 days:62#14,369by richardgabriel5 years ago
A cool way to display color palettes on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Genesis Style Select
Down in the last 7 days:13#16,125by Nick the Geek15 years ago
Permits users to quickly and easily change style sheets with the Genesis framework themes
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Color Palette Generator
Down in the last 7 days:8#17,560by Houke de Kwant7 years ago
This plugin generates color palettes for your WordPress images and appends them to your content.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Status Bar Color Changer For Android
Up in the last 7 days:68#17,869by Jyothis Joy5 years ago
Status Bar Color Changer For Android changes the color of notification bar and address bar in Android while visiting via chrome.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mobile address bar color changer
Up in the last 7 days:15#18,190by spacedev9 years ago
Change the color of the address bar on chome on mobile devices. For now only chrome supports the meta tags.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Boxed Content
Up in the last 7 days:9#18,442by DigitalCourt12 years ago
Add a mobile friendly fluid width Boxed Content with an easy to use shortcodes
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Color Picker
Down in the last 7 days:74#19,885by sarap4221 month ago
Add a color picker to WordPress categories and reflect category colors in post listings and links. Includes per-category noindex settings.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Customize specific post title with color
Down in the last 7 days:48#21,311by kinjaldalwadi1 year ago
Use to add custom color for specific post title.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ShortcodeHub Addon
Down in the last 7 days:114#21,942by ShortcodeHub7 years ago
Grabs the dominant color or a representative color palette from an image. Uses javascript and canvas.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ultimate Color Schemes
Down in the last 7 days:433#23,111by VeraDeveloper2 years ago
Some new and role based color schemes for your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Catch Dark Mode
Down in the last 7 days:209#23,794by Catch Themes5 months ago
Catch Dark Mode is a Free Dark Mode WordPress plugin that allows you to enable the dark mode option on your WordPress site for your visitors.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simple customize scrollbar
Down in the last 7 days:17#23,867by Tomek6 years ago
Customize scrollbar without JavaScript library
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
High Contrast Admin
Down in the last 7 days:111#25,276by Robert Chapin9 years ago
Adds admin color schemes for the visually impaired.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Green Active Plugins!
Up in the last 7 days:61#25,292by r-a-y15 years ago
Change your WP admin active plugin's color from light gray to green!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Super Thorough Admin Color Scheme
Down in the last 7 days:103#25,377by Michelle Schulp Hunt10 years ago
A super-thorough admin color scheme, which happens to be pink. Works as-is without any coding, or great for developers to use to build their own style …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACD Admin Designer
Down in the last 7 days:588#26,434by steffen34ik6 months ago
Customize the WordPress admin interface with modern color schemes, live preview, presets, import and export.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Color Palette
Up in the last 7 days:449#27,094by Alvaro5 years ago
Create a color palette based on the colors of an image.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Color Bar
Up in the last 7 days:456#27,669by Dave Jesch8 years ago
Configure the color of the admin bar in the WordPress admin area.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Color sync for ACF
Down in the last 7 days:129#27,810by Johan Jonk Stenström11 months ago
Automatically get all colors from your theme to the ACF color picker
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Color Palette Block
Up in the last 7 days:310#28,159by lubus5 months ago
Build and share beautiful color palettes with multiple display styles and easy color code copying.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Duotone Image Filter Tool
Up in the last 7 days:153#28,393by Shift Current1 year ago
Apply a two-color duotone effect to your images within the WordPress dashboard. Save color presets and adjust image settings for brand consistency.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Menubar Color Changer
Down in the last 7 days:246#29,061by Ole-Kenneth14 years ago
Menubar Color Changer allows you to change the color of the black menubar in Twenty Eleven.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Aticolor Palettes
Up in the last 7 days:2,855#29,092by Ático estudio6 months ago
Personal color palette library — save color groups and access them from the admin toolbar or the dedicated admin page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Color Scrollbar
#29,818by babyskill12 years ago
WP Color Scrollbar is a jQuery custom scrollbar for your wordpress website. This plugin will enable awesome custom scrollbar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Colorful Tag Cloud
Up in the last 7 days:426#30,140by Arefly12 years ago
Colorful Your Blog's Tag Cloud. 為你部落格的標籤雲加上色彩
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Background Changer
Up in the last 7 days:583#30,963by Ciprian Turcu17 years ago
Background Changer helps you change very easy and very fast the background color of your wordpress blog.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Colors
Up in the last 7 days:832#31,268by Brad Parbs5 years ago
A WordPress plugin to disable admin color schemes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Color Widgets
#32,353by Nilay15 years ago
Color Widgets for Wordpress is a widget to show any custom text or html in a colorful and styled way.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Colored Categories
Down in the last 7 days:218#32,853by mountaininja13 years ago
Use this plugin to attach a color to each of your categories, Great for creating a distinguishing look for each category on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day