As of April 2026, Half Baked Category Colours is a WordPress pills plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 205 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Recently updated within the last 3 months.
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 swatc…
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Submission/compatibility updates and admin UI improvements.
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