WP Term Colors

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1. ★★★★★ kshowie

   5.2y ago

   Doesn’t Work

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2. ★★★★★ Lindsey

   7.6y ago

   This plugin still work great. I use it all the time as it’s an easy to add option for client’s when they need to color code taxonomies. It even works great with Timber themes. You can easily add it to your templates in PHP using David Cavins’ example. If you are using a theme that is utilizing twig/Timber, you can grab the color in your for loop as easy as: {{ term.meta('color') }};

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3. ★★★★★ acrashik_

   8.9y ago

   Simple and useful. Working great!

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4. ★★★★★ mathieu.pellegrin

   9.5y ago

   Another good and simple plugin that just does the job.

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5. ★★★★★ David Cavins

   10.4y ago

   I needed to save colors for terms, and found that @jjj had already done the work. Accessing the saved colors is pretty straightforward using the new (WP 4.4 or newer) built-in utility function: $color = get_term_meta( $term_id, 'color', true ); The terms are saved in hex format (#eeee22) so are ready to use once retrieved. Thanks @jjj.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-05-15 800+ → 700+ down after 227 days in tier
2. 2025-09-30 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-09-28 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-09-27 900+ → 800+ down after 282 days in tier
5. 2024-12-19 1K+ → 900+ down

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).

• WP Term Images 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags B
• WP Term Icons 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags B
• Advanced Term Images 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags D
• Simple Taxonomy Ordering 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• Term Management Tools 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags B
• Head Meta Data 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A

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WP Term Colors: 700+ active installs, 4.2★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-term-colors