Color the WP

🇫🇷 Documentation française : README.fr.md

A WordPress plugin that colorizes admin list rows and edit-screen banners based on taxonomy terms. Auto-pastelizes whatever color you pick so rows stay readable.

Built for sites where you manage dozens (or hundreds) of pages or custom post types and want to spot families at a glance — page templates, page families, statuses, categories, or anything else you can model as a taxonomy.

Features

• Row coloring on any admin list (pages, posts, custom post types) based on the terms attached to each post.
• Page-template coloring — color rows by the native WordPress _wp_page_template meta. No taxonomy needed.
• Filter dropdown in the admin list, per taxonomy or per page template.
• Edit-screen banner showing which terms (or which template) the current post belongs to, in the matching color.
• Two color sources per taxonomy rule:
  • Direct — pick a color per term in the plugin settings (WP color picker).
  • ACF — read the color from an ACF field attached to the taxonomy (an ACF Color Picker field works best).
• Auto-pastelization — any saturated color gets mixed with white at a configurable intensity, so text stays readable. Tunable from 0 (raw color) to 1 (pure white). Default: 0.78.
• Auto-discovery — no hardcoded post types, taxonomies, or templates. The plugin lists every show_ui post type × taxonomy combo, plus any page templates declared in your theme.

Installation

1. Copy this folder to wp-content/plugins/wp-color-admin/.
2. Activate the plugin from Plugins in your WordPress admin.
3. Open Settings → Color the WP.
4. For each (post type × taxonomy) pair you care about, toggle what you want to show:
   • Color list rows — paint each row with the term's color
   • Show banner on edit screen — colored badge at the top of each post edit screen
   • Show filter dropdown in list — adds a term filter to the admin list toolbar
5. Choose the color source (Direct or ACF), pick colors or set the ACF field name, save.

Color sources

Direct

Each term of the taxonomy gets a WordPress color picker. Stored in the plugin's option (ctwp_settings). Best when colors are stable and managed by an admin.

ACF

The plugin reads get_field( <slug>, $term ) for each term. Falls back to get_term_meta() if ACF isn't installed.

Use case: editorial teams who want to manage colors directly on each term (Posts → Taxonomies → Edit term → Color field). Requires an ACF field group attached to the taxonomy, with a field of type Color Picker.

Page templates

If your theme declares custom page templates (with the Template Name: header), the plugin auto-detects them and shows a dedicated Page Template section in the settings for each affected post type. You can:

• Pick a color per template (including the implicit "Default template").
• Color list rows by template, show a template banner on the edit screen, and add a "filter by template" dropdown to the admin list — same toggles as taxonomy rules.

Filtering uses the URL parameter `?ctwp_tpl=