Half Baked Tag Colour Manager

February 5, 2026 emrys horton

Description

Half Baked Tag Colour Manager lets you set tag colours at multiple levels, Per-tag colour, Per-post/page colour, Default tag colour, and Theme default colour.

Per-tag colours override the post/page colour, which overrides the plugin default.

If you want a consistent “tag pill” look across themes, you can optionally enable pill styling and fine-tune spacing, tint, underline, border thickness, and pill shape.

You can also manage tag case:
Choose a Storage case (database normalization)
Optionally auto-apply Storage case when tags are created or edited
Optionally force a Display case sitewide on the front end
Bulk-normalize selected tags from the Tags screen, plus a “Normalize all” option

How it works

Set colours on Posts → Tags for tags that should always have a specific look.
Optionally set a per-post tag colour in the editor sidebar to apply one colour to all tags on that post.
Optionally set a Default tag colour to cover anything left unset.
Leave styling off if your theme already handles tags the way you like, or enable pill styling for consistency.

Colour resolution order

When a tag is displayed, the plugin resolves the colour in this order:

Per-tag colour
Per-post or per-page colour
Plugin default tag colour
Theme default

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

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