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Half Baked Category Colours

by emrysh

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Half Baked Category Colours adds a per-category colour picker and applies those colours sitewide wherever categories are displayed.

It is designed to be simple in day-to-day use. Set a colour once on the category screen and you are done. If you want a consistent “category pill” look across themes, you can optionally enable pill styling and fine-tune spacing, tint, underline, border thickness, and pill shape.

Highlights
* Set a colour per category on Posts Categories (add or edit), plus Quick Edit support.
* Optional default category colour (used when a category has no specific colour).
* Optional pill styling (rounded borders + padding), plus controls for pill gap, border thickness, pill shape, background tint, and underline.
* Category list screen improvements, including a colour swatch column and Quick Edit colour picker.
* Optional category name case tools (categories only), including Storage case, auto-apply on create or edit, forced Display case, and Normalize all.

How it works

  1. Go to Posts Categories and set a colour for each category you want styled.
  2. Optionally set a Default category colour to cover anything left unset.
  3. Optionally enable pill styling for a consistent look across themes.

Inheritance

If a child category has no colour set, it can inherit its parent category colour.

Privacy and data

This plugin does not send any data off-site. Colours and settings are stored locally in your WordPress database.

Uninstall

Uninstalling the plugin removes plugin settings and any stored metadata created by the plugin.

Screenshots

Category list screen showing a colour swatch column and Quick Edit support.

Category list screen showing a colour swatch column and Quick Edit support.

Add or edit category screen showing the colour picker.

Add or edit category screen showing the colour picker.

Settings screen showing defaults, styling options, inheritance, and case tools.

Settings screen showing defaults, styling options, inheritance, and case tools.

Plugin Details

Active Installs
0
Total Downloads
469
Version
1.1.11
Requires WP
5.8
Requires PHP
7.4
Tested Up To
6.9.7
Added
2026-01-20
Last Updated
2026-03-04 11:18pm GMT

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