shazdeh

<p>Just like the way you can create custom page templates, this plugin enables you to build custom taaxonomy archive templates by adding this bit to the top of your file:</p>
<pre><code><?php
/**
 * {Taxonomy Singular Label} Template: Grid
 */
?>
</code></pre>
<p>where {Taxonomy Singular Label} should be replaced with the singular label registered for the taxonomy (for example “Category” or “Tag”). Now when you’re adding or editing terms in that taxonomy, you can choose the desired template file.</p>
<p>You can safely include this plugin in your theme and ship custom templates for taxonomy archives with the theme.</p>
<h3>Changelogs</h3>
<h4>0.2.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Allow using taxonomy slug in the template header, fix issue with templates not being found in multilingual websites. Much thanks to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkdgs/" rel="ugc">Mkdgs</a> for the fix!</li>
</ul>
<h4>0.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fix fatal error when using child themes</li>
<li>added “custom_taxonomy_templates” filter for extendibility</li>
</ul>


Custom Taxonomy Templates

Define custom templates for taxonomy archive views.

John James Jacoby

Stuttter

<p>Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms</p>
<p>WP Term Colors allows users to assign colors to any visible category, tag, or taxonomy term using a fancy color picker, providing a customized look for their taxonomies.</p>
<h4>Dependencies</h4>
<p>This plugin requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-meta/" title="Metadata, for taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Meta</a></p>
<h4>Also checkout</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-chosen/" title="Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly." rel="ugc">WP Chosen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pretty-filters/" title="Makes post filters better match what's already in Media & Attachments." rel="ugc">WP Pretty Filters</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-calendar/" title="The best way to manage events in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP Event Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/" title="Add categories to media & attachments." rel="ugc">WP Media Categories</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-order/" title="Sort taxonomy terms, your way." rel="ugc">WP Term Order</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-authors/" title="Authors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Authors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-colors/" title="Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Colors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-icons/" title="Pretty icons for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-visibility/" title="Visibilities for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Visibility</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-activity/" title="The best way to log activity in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Activity</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatars/" title="Allow users to upload avatars or choose them from your media library." rel="ugc">WP User Avatars</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-groups/" title="Group users together with taxonomies & terms." rel="ugc">WP User Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-profiles/" title="A sophisticated way to edit users in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Profiles</a></li>
</ul>


WP Term Colors

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.



Works well with WP's new termmeta table

Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms

Custom Taxonomy Templates vs WP Term Colors