by John James Jacoby 4.2 (5 reviews)

WP Term Colors

Name: WP Term Colors
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: John James Jacoby

Assign colors to categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms.

WP Term Colors ranks #7,925 among WordPress.org plugins with 700+ active installations, is #189 of 1,454 in the Taxonomy category, a 4.2/5 rating from 5 reviews, and was last updated Oct 13, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v2.0.1 Current Version v2.0.1

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 13 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 6 days ago Last Refreshed on

#189 of 1,454 in Taxonomy Top 10% by installs Downloads -30% this week Actively maintained

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16.9K

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84%

Review 4.2 out of 5

4.2 (5 reviews)

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.0.1
Last Updated: Oct 13, 2026
Requires WP: 4.4+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 5.6.20 or higher
Author: John James Jacoby

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.2
Reviews: 5
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

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WP Term Colors is for WordPress site owners who use categories, tags, or other taxonomy terms and want to visually distinguish them. It solves the lack of visual styling for taxonomy terms by letting users assign colors to them through a color picker.

Assign colors to taxonomy terms
Works with categories and tags
Fancy color picker interface
Requires WP Term Meta

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Term Colors

No. Not since WordPress 4.4.

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

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

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' ) ) ) );

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

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