by Artem P. 4.7 (13 reviews)

Colorful Categories

Name: Colorful Categories
Rating: 4.7 (13 reviews)
Author: Artem P.

New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour.

Colorful Categories ranks #4,760 among WordPress.org plugins with 2,000+ active installations, is #685 of 8,848 in the Customization category, a 4.7/5 rating from 13 reviews, and was last updated Sep 30, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1.4)

v2.0.21 Current Version v2.0.21

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 30 Sep, 2025

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#685 of 8,848 in Customization Top 10% by installs Downloads -10% this week No update in over a year

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Active Installs

2K+

-30.2%

KW Avg Position

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Downloads

64.1K

+12 today

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Rating

94%

Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (13 reviews)

Next Milestone 3K

Total Progress 85.6%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Oct 13, 2021

Colorful Categories [colorful-categories] < 2.0.15

CVE-2021-24802 · Fixed in v2.0.15

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.0.21
Last Updated: Sep 30, 2025
Requires WP: 4.9+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Artem P.

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7
Reviews: 13
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who use a categories widget and want to visually distinguish categories. It solves the problem of visually flat category lists by letting each category display in its own color.

Custom taxonomies support
Manual color customization per category
Automatic intelligent color selection
Multiple themes
Easy to customize
Responsive and flexible widget
Colors stored as term meta

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Colorful Categories

Open the page to edit tags or categories and change the colour in the column "Color".

The plugin does check if the category name contains one of the keywords and sets the pre-defined colour for this category. For example, a category that contains Facebook will be coloured to a dark blue colour.

Use Wordpress default function: get_term_meta($term_id, 'cc_color', true);