The Events Calendar: Category Colors
Add event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
5(61 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 months agoAs of April 2026, The Events Calendar: Category Colors is a WordPress color plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 61 reviews. It has been downloaded 445K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Central Color Palette.
5/561 reviews
5.0K+active installs
445K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Add background colors to event categories displayed in the event views of The Events Calendar. This is inspired by the post Coloring Your Category Events.
Settings for The Events Calendar: Category Colors plugin are located in their own tab on The Events Calendar Settings page.
To force a refresh of your CSS, add ?refresh_css to the end of your events URL, or re-save the Settings.
Attribution
Thanks to jonahcoyote for some early help and direction.
Big thanks to Barry Hughes (WebsiteBakery) for refactoring code and Legend Superpowers.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
[Solved] Not usable
by elmanuuu·1 year ago·4 replies
Disappointed
by d1abo1904·1 year ago
Officially recommended by Events Calendar (/knowledgebase/the-events-calendar-category-colors/), bugged with new versions of the plugin and time needed for a fix is incredibly long.
Incredible Support
by orsosgriffin·1 year ago·1 reply
Support was extremely responsive to an update issue. This makes an already stellar plugin even better.
Excellent support
by viche·1 year ago·1 reply
Real Go-to guys! Excellent support
Really useful addon plugin for the Events Calendar
by Manou Allou·1 year ago·1 reply
This is a really nice addition to the Events Calendar plugin. Thank you for your time and effort.
Just hope that it keeps getting updated for future versions of WordPress.
Download Trends
Today: 15Yesterday: 28This week: 119Period total: 18K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.3+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
| Dependencies | the-events-calendar |
Version Adoption
v7.4
68.0%
Other
18.1%
v7.3
13.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
7.4.2 / 2025-09-16
- Fix – Resolve problems related to loading the plugin with newer versions of The Events Calendar 6.14+
Contributors
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