Luke Dunsmore

<p>A free plugin that lets you easily customize the admin bar and side menu. Change colours, add your own links, hide elements or use drag and drop to reorder them.</p>
<p>SimpleBar gives you:</p>
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<li>Colours for Admin Bar (front‑end & admin) and the left Admin Menu. Change text, icon, and background/hover/current item colours.</li>
<li>Per‑role controls: hide common core nodes, add custom links with drag & drop order, and optional preferred order of top‑level items.</li>
</ul>
<p>SimpleBar is free and open-source (FOSS) – you can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/lukedunsmoto/simplebar-admin-bar-customizer</p>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reordering is best‑effort. WordPress and plugins may add nodes after our hook runs.</li>
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SimpleBar – Admin Bar Customiser

Customise the Admin Bar and Admin Menu colours. Per‑role: hide core items, add custom links, and reorder (best‑effort).

emrysh

<p>Half Baked Category Colours adds a per-category colour picker and applies those colours sitewide wherever categories are displayed.</p>
<p>It is designed to be simple in day-to-day use. Set a colour once on the category screen and you are done. If you want a consistent “category pill” look across themes, you can optionally enable pill styling and fine-tune spacing, tint, underline, border thickness, and pill shape.</p>
<p>Highlights<br />
* Set a colour per category on Posts <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Categories (add or edit), plus Quick Edit support.<br />
* Optional default category colour (used when a category has no specific colour).<br />
* Optional pill styling (rounded borders + padding), plus controls for pill gap, border thickness, pill shape, background tint, and underline.<br />
* Category list screen improvements, including a colour swatch column and Quick Edit colour picker.<br />
* Optional category name case tools (categories only), including Storage case, auto-apply on create or edit, forced Display case, and Normalize all.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
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<li>Go to Posts <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Categories and set a colour for each category you want styled.</li>
<li>Optionally set a Default category colour to cover anything left unset.</li>
<li>Optionally enable pill styling for a consistent look across themes.</li>
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<h4>Inheritance</h4>
<p>If a child category has no colour set, it can inherit its parent category colour.</p>
<h4>Privacy and data</h4>
<p>This plugin does not send any data off-site. Colours and settings are stored locally in your WordPress database.</p>
<h4>Uninstall</h4>
<p>Uninstalling the plugin removes plugin settings and any stored metadata created by the plugin.</p>


Half Baked Category Colours

Add a per-category colour picker and apply category colours sitewide, with optional pill styling and category case tools.

SimpleBar – Admin Bar Customiser vs Half Baked Category Colours