Half Baked Category Colours

January 19, 2026 emrys horton

Description

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 swatch column and Quick Edit colour picker.
Optional category name case tools (categories only), including Storage case, auto-apply on create or edit, forced Display case, and Normalize all.

How it works

Go to Posts → Categories and set a colour for each category you want styled.
Optionally set a Default category colour to cover anything left unset.
Optionally enable pill styling for a consistent look across themes.

Inheritance

If a child category has no colour set, it can inherit its parent category colour.

Privacy and data

This plugin does not send any data off-site. Colours and settings are stored locally in your WordPress database.

Uninstall

Uninstalling the plugin removes plugin settings and any stored metadata created by the plugin.

Screenshots

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By Emrys Horton | Source: Original Post

Weekly Issue – Week of January 19, 2026