Block Editor Colors
Change Gutenberg block editor colors or create new ones.
4.8(13 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 9 months agoAs of April 2026, Block Editor Colors is a WordPress customize plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 31K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Downloads are down 19% this week. Top alternative: Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce.
4.8/513 reviews
3.0K+active installs
31K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
This plugin allows you to edit default Gutenberg block editor colors or the ones registered in a theme, as well as add your own colors! Since this is a global site configuration (applied sitewide), you can much easier go with your brand color scheme, without a need to manually change colors for each block each time.
Once the plugin is installed and activated, navigate to Settings > Editor Colors to customize colors.
There are two sections to customize colors globally for your website:
Custom Colors
Here you can create new colors for the block color palette. You will not lose these colors when you change a theme. These colors can be deactivated or transferred via XML.
Default Colors
Here you can edit colors that are registered by your active WordPress theme or default Gutenberg block co…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Huge help.
by myracat·11 months ago
I’ve been using this plugin for a year on my sites. It’s super helpful to get the right colors accessible in the editor.
Excellent Plugin!
by da commerce·1 year ago
Thanks you so much for creating this plugin so we can easily add custom colors to our templates. This really makes our lives easier 🙂
Works great
by dawnrd·3 years ago
Using this with Getwid, it works out of the box. Needs more customizations.
It helps – but shouldn’t be needed
by bloohair·3 years ago
This plugin has helped change a default colour in Gutenberg, but I am having to go into every page and select the text colour manually as it hasn’t happened automatically. I didn’t need this Plugin until WordPress 6.0. But thanks to MotoPress
Great! Gradients soon?
by mapa729·3 years ago
Makes adding custom editor colors a much faster process than editing functions and checking/ adding custom CSS classes per color. Thanks for making it!
My only request to the devs- if you can, please add support for gradients! I know how to do it via functions/ css, but it would be great it if were in this plugin as well.
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
98.2%
v1.1
1.8%
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Changelog
1.2.6, Jun 20 2024
- Minor bugfixes and improvements.
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