George Stephanis

Michael Arestad

<p>Hugh is a social color experiment for WordPress. Add the Hugh widget to any sidebar and visitors to your site can pick a color — background, text, the whole page — and broadcast it to everyone else viewing the site at the same time.</p>
<p><strong>How it works:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>A visitor opens the color picker in the Hugh widget, chooses a hex color, and optionally leaves a short note.</li>
<li>Hugh pushes that color via the REST API and stores it (up to 100 recent entries).</li>
<li>The page background and text color transition smoothly to the new color for all active visitors.</li>
<li>A row of color swatches shows the history of recent choices — click any swatch to jump back to that color.</li>
</ol>
<p>It’s part toy, part social experiment: can your visitors agree on a color, or will it descend into a color battle?</p>
<p><strong>Technical details:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Colors are stored via the WP object cache when an external cache (Memcached, Redis) is available, making it fast and ephemeral. Without an external cache it falls back to a WP option for persistence.</li>
<li>Color history is capped at 100 entries, sorted by timestamp.</li>
<li>REST endpoints at <code>hugh/v1/colors</code> (GET) and <code>hugh/v1/colors/add</code> (POST) are public and unauthenticated by design — this is intentional for the live-sharing mechanic.</li>
<li>The <code>hugh_css</code> filter lets themes register custom CSS overrides. Twenty Seventeen support is built in; other themes can hook in via <code>add_filter( 'hugh_css', ... )</code>.</li>
<li>Colors are rendered as smooth CSS transitions so the page doesn’t flash when a new color arrives.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Hugh works best on sites with an external object cache. Without one, colors are persisted to the database and shared state may lag under concurrent visitors.</p>


Hugh

Hugh is your personal color consultant. However, Hugh also easily gives in to peer pressure.

pixelgrade

vlad.olaru

George Olaru

Razvan Onofrei

Madalin Gorbanescu

<p>Style Manager generates and coordinates colors, typography, and spacing for compatible WordPress themes and blocks.</p>
<p>Instead of tuning isolated colors, font sizes, and spacing values by hand, you work with connected design decisions that can flow through the editor, the active theme, compatible blocks, and the front end.</p>
<p>Themes that support Style Manager apply the system across site templates and theme details. Compatible blocks can adapt to the same design decisions in context, so sections and blocks feel like part of one site rather than separate styling work.</p>
<p>In Style Manager 2.3, the main styling flow is available in the Site Editor, with visual preview boards, editor-canvas previews, and a Live Site preview for reviewing unsaved changes before publishing.</p>
<h4>Free compatible stack</h4>
<p>You can try Style Manager with this free Pixelgrade stack:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/pixelgrade/anima" rel="nofollow ugc">Anima</a> provides the theme-level integration.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nova-blocks/" rel="ugc">Nova Blocks</a> provides compatible blocks that can respond to the same design system.</li>
</ul>
<p>Style Manager also integrates with Pixelgrade LT themes, but premium themes are not required to try the free Anima and Nova Blocks path.</p>
<h4>What you can shape</h4>
<ul>
<li>Color palettes with generated roles for compatible themes and blocks.</li>
<li>Typography choices for headings, body copy, and details.</li>
<li>Spacing and rhythm controls that keep layouts consistent.</li>
<li>Theme-supported tweaks and motion settings.</li>
<li>Live editor previews before saving.</li>
<li>Context-aware styling for blocks and sections that support Style Manager.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<p>Style Manager is not a universal page builder and does not make every theme or block support every control.</p>
<p>The full experience depends on your active theme and blocks being built to read Style Manager’s design decisions. If a theme or block does not support a specific Style Manager feature, the related controls may be hidden or may not affect that theme or block’s output.</p>
<h3>Issues</h3>
<p>If you identify any errors or have an idea for improving the plugin, please open an <a href="https://github.com/pixelgrade/style-manager/issues?stage=open" rel="nofollow ugc">issue</a>. We’re more than excited to see what the community thinks of this project, and we welcome your input!</p>
<p>If GitHub is not your thing, but you are passionate about Style Manager and want to help us make it better, don’t hesitate to <a href="https://pixelgrade.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">reach us</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://select2.github.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Select2</a> JavaScript library – License: MIT</li>
<li><a href="https://ace.c9.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ace Editor</a> JavaScript editor – License: BSD</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/natedavisolds/jquery-react" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery React</a> JavaScript jQuery plugin – License: MIT</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Font Loader</a> JavaScript library – License: Apache 2.0</li>
<li><a href="http://fusejs.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Fuse.js</a> Lightweight fuzzy-search JavaScript library – License: Apache 2.0</li>
<li><a href="https://carbonfields.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">CarbonFields</a> WordPress Custom Fields Library – License: GPLv2</li>
<li>Default <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/OgM4RKdr2kY" rel="nofollow ugc">image</a> for Style Manager Color Palette control – License: <a href="https://unsplash.com/license" rel="nofollow ugc">Unsplash</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy & External Services</h3>
<p>Style Manager uses external services to deliver some design assets.</p>
<p><strong>Pixelgrade Cloud (cloud.pixelgrade.com)</strong></p>
<p>To provide color palettes, font palettes, and curated design configurations, the plugin can fetch design assets from Pixelgrade Cloud. This request is made from the WordPress admin, not from your site’s frontend, and the response is cached locally.</p>
<p>When fetching design assets, the plugin sends: your site URL, whether the site uses SSL, your WordPress version, the Style Manager version, and your active theme’s slug, name, URI, version, and text domain. No personal data about your site’s visitors is sent or collected, and the plugin does not load tracking or analytics scripts.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: Pixelgrade Cloud</li>
<li>Provider: Pixelgrade – https://pixelgrade.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://pixelgrade.com/privacy/</li>
<li>Web fonts referenced by font palettes are served by Google Fonts (https://fonts.googleapis.com / https://fonts.gstatic.com). See Google’s Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.</li>
</ul>


Style Manager

Generate and coordinate colors, typography, and spacing across compatible WordPress themes and blocks.

Hugh vs Style Manager