Dominant Color

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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Reviewers like how simple and self-contained it is, with the main asks being bulk processing for existing images and a note that it's flagged as untested with recent WordPress releases.

1. ★★★★★ willwenzel

   2.4y ago

   This plugin is perfect in its simplicity. Developers thought of everything, and it makes pages with images look beautiful. PLUS, if you don’t like the color they pick to be dominant, you can choose another color from the image. So well thought out. I just wish WordPress wouldn’t bug me saying it hasn’t been tested with the last 3 releases. It works perfectly, and probably will regardless of updates. Here’s how I use it in a theme in case anyone reading this is struggling. if (has_post_thumbnail()) {$featured_image_id=get_post_thumbnail_id( );}$imageColor = get_color_data($featured_image_id, ‘dominant_color_hex’, ‘true’);$colorPaletteArray = get_post_meta ($featured_image_id, ‘color_palette_hex’, ‘true’);$complimentaryColor1 = $colorPaletteArray[0];$complimentaryColor2 = $colorPaletteArray[1];$complimentaryColor3 = $colorPaletteArray[2];$complimentaryColor4 = $colorPaletteArray[3]; And then I just assign $imageColor, and it’s 4 complimentary colors, to the relevant divs in the template. Genius plugin, and thank you for creating it.

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2. ★★★★★ Ngo Quang Dao

   6.8y ago

   Useful plugin, please add function to bulk edit all images on gallery 🥰

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3. ★★★★★ Justin Moreland

   7.7y ago

   I like this and how it does what it says. I like also that it doesn’t enqueue any scripts or CSS into the page. Great for custom theme development. Also seems to work well in WordPress 5.0 (newest at the time of this review).

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4. ★★★★★ isteiner

   10.5y ago

   Pulls out both the dominant color and a nice color palette. Far more efficient to do this calculation once on upload rather than via PHP or JavaScript when rendering the page. Perfect!

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5. ★★★★★ Sii Cockerill

   10.8y ago

   I had to search the post_meta table to find out how the ‘dominant_override’ meta_key – it would have been useful to find that in the release notes. A bulk calculate feature would be excellent – along with a way of colour picking the override from the posts screen in the WP Dashboard. Otherwise, perfect for what I need 🙂

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.2

Translated into 3 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-31 300+ → 200+ down after 24 days in tier
2. 2026-08-07 200+ → 300+ up after 39 days in tier
3. 2026-06-29 300+ → 200+ down after 5 days in tier
4. 2026-06-24 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
5. 2026-06-20 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2026-06-19 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-06-18 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in tier
8. 2026-06-15 200+ → 300+ up after 16 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Styleguide – Custom Fonts and Colors 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
• Imsanity 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• Firelight Lightbox 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Responsive Lightbox & Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• S Simple Lightbox 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B
• reSmush.it : The original free image compressor and optimizer plugin 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A

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Dominant Color: 200+ active installs, 4.8★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/dominant-color