Use custom admin bar colors and favicons to differentiate your environments (staging/prod)
As of April 2026, Contextual Adminbar Color is a WordPress color plugin with 500 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.4+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Top alternative: Central Color Palette.
This plugins provides custom admin bar colors to differentiate environments (staging, preprod, production). It’s really easy to use and developer-friendly.
The plugin provides a settings screen which several options:
It also offers few PHP constants you can use in your wp-config.php file (see Frequently Asked Questions below).
Since WordPress Core will probably deprecate alternate admin color schemes in mid-term, this plugin is…
| WordPress | 5.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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