As of April 2026, Colorful Categories is a WordPress widget plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 64K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: Widgets for Google Reviews.
4.7/513 reviews
2.0K+active installs
64K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget – make every category in its colour.
All colours are stored as term meta variables.
Features:
- custom taxonomies support
- manually customize colours for each category
- intelligent (automatic) colours selection
- different themes
- easy to customize
- responsive and flexible widget
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works great
by Reiniepress·2 years ago
The default embedding works great with widgets. Can also be used directly in code to color categories from list of posts for example.
does not work on 2023 and 2024 themes
by GCF·2 years ago·1 reply
Awesome!
by YAT·3 years ago
This plugin is helper my works.
Japanese people is often color for tag and category because we are a culture of color.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by YAT.
I Love This Plugin
by Sven Lennartz·3 years ago
I really don’t need it but it adds value and color to my site. Easy to use and customizable. Very well done. Thank you!
super Plugin
by cockie·7 years ago
gefällt mir sehr gut
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.21
- Tested up to WordPress 6.8.
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