Many devices and browsers provide less-than-ideal colors when selecting text on sites. Users may select text for a variety of reasons, including as a …
As of April 2026, Custom Highlight Color is a WordPress color plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 48% this week. Top alternative: Central Color Palette.
Many devices and browsers provide less-than-ideal colors when selecting text on sites. Users may select text for a variety of reasons, including as a habit when reading or to share a quote. This plugin lets you customize this highlight color with live preview in the customizer.
Note that themes can also customize this color, and in cases where the theme sets the color, this plugin would allow it to be changed to a different color.
Great simple tool! Thanks heaps!
A life saver when you’re not so good with css code, it does exactly what it says it does.
Finally found a great and easy plugin to highlight text in the desired color. I use Avada theme and it works great in Firefox.
This is an incredible plugin, really helpful. Just a heads up to the community, the color settings seems not to show up on certain themes, that doesn’t mean the plugin doesn’t work. Just switch to twenty fourteen theme and the option will show up. After configuring the text highlight settings, you can switch back to your preferred theme and your text highlight settings will still take effect on that new theme.
Thank you for the good work. I appreciate people like you who do a fantastic job for WordPress.
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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