=== Colorful Categories ===
Contributors: loyaltymanufaktur
Tags: categories, widget, coloured, colourful categories
Requires at least: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.8
Stable tag: 2.0.21
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
== Description ==
New Categories widget in the awesome style! Bring colours to your categories widget - make every category in its colour.
All colours are stored as term meta variables.
Features:
- custom taxonomies support
- manually customize colours for each category
- intelligent (automatic) colours selection
- different themes
- easy to customize
- responsive and flexible widget
== Installation ==
1. Unzip the archive on your computer
2. Upload `colorful-categories` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Add a widget to the sidebar on the page 'Widgets'. You can change widget title, taxonomy, theme and show/hide posts count
5. (optional) Customize colours on the page to manage categories (under the column 'Color')
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= How to assign new colour? =
Open the page to edit tags or categories and change the colour in the column "Color".
= How does intelligent colour selection work? =
The plugin does check if the category name contains one of the keywords and sets the pre-defined colour for this category.
For example, a category that contains Facebook will be coloured to a dark blue colour.
= How to get a colour for a specific category? =
Use Wordpress default function: get_term_meta($term_id, 'cc_color', true);
== Screenshots ==
1. Categories widget in bubble theme.
2. Categories widget in box theme.
3. Page to manage categories with new column 'Color'.
== Changelog ==
= 2.0.21 =
* Tested up to Wordpress 6.8.
= 2.0.20 =
* Tested up to Wordpress 6.6.
= 2.0.19 =
* Tested up to Wordpress 6.4.
= 2.0.18 =
* WordPress 6.0 support.
= 2.0.17 =
* Fixed a problem with displaying.
= 2.0.16 =
* Improved plugin stability and security.
= 2.0.15 =
* Enhanced security.
= 2.0.14 =
* Minor changes.
= 2.0.13 =
* Fixed colors saving process.
* Wordpress 5.4 support added.
= 2.0.12 =
* Removed column "Color" from the private taxonomies.
* Small code refactoring.
= 2.0.11 =
* Wordpress 5.3 support added.
= 2.0.10 =
* Wordpress 5.2 support added.
= 2.0.9 =
* Updated file-header information and readme.txt.
= 2.0.8 =
* Added filter 'colorful_categories_term_text'.
= 2.0.7 =
* Added action 'colorful_categories_styles' to customize the output of theme styles.
* Small design improvements.
= 2.0.6 =
* Fixed functionality to handle translations.
= 2.0.5 =
* Small backend design improvements.
= 2.0.4 =
* Added class "current" to the categories that are currently selected.
= 2.0.3 =
* Updated functionality due to deprecated parameter in the function get_terms().
= 2.0.2 =
* Fixed compatibility with PHP 5.3-.
= 2.0.1 =
* Improved update script.
= 2.0.0 =
* Plugin completely updated to work with the WordPress term meta. All the stored data is moved from the options table to the terms meta table.
= 1.1.2 =
Fixed option "Show empty categories" in the widget settings.
= 1.1.1 =
* Compatibility with the latest version of WordPress.
= 1.1.0 =
* Minor improvements and optimization.
= 1.1.0 =
* Fixed issue with the browser cache.
* Fixed issue with an empty colour cell right after the adding of a new category/tag.
* Improved functionality: the colour will be removed from the database after removing the related term.
* Small minor improvements.
= 1.0.6 =
* Added a few new filters for better customization.
* A lot of small improvements, fixes and updates.
= 1.0.5 =
* Added field to limit categories to be displayed for the widget.
* Fixed field to select a theme.
= 1.0.4 =
* Added field to exclude categories from the widget.
= 1.0.3 =
* Fixed colours column.
= 1.0.2 =
* Fixed link to the term (category, tag, etc).
= 1.0.1 =
* Added support for non-hierarchical taxonomies.
* Added customizable message 'List is empty' in case there is nothing to display in the widget.
= 1.0 =
* Initial release.