Color Posts

Description

Color Posts grabs an image from your post, samples it, creates a matching color and a contrast value (black or white), and changes the post’s background color to match the image.
It also changes the background color of your window in Chrome for Android, and customizes the look of the AMP default template if you use the AMP plugin.

If you’re not happy with the automatically picked color, you can define your own custom color thanks to the “Post Color” meta box in the post editor.

If you’d like to use post colors via the REST API, you can use the colors field in the post response.

Important: for this plugin to work, you must activate Jetpack first.

If you find bugs, you can report them here, or submit a pull request on GitHub.

You can read more about how the plugin works here: Color Posts plugin: how to use Jetpack libs in your plugin

Installation

1. Install the Jetpack plugin
2. Install the Color Posts plugin via the www.ads-software.com plugin repository, or via your dashboard
3. Activate the plugin
4. Enjoy! ??

FAQ

I don’t want to change the background color on my site, but I’d like to use this plugin to change other elements on my site

No problem! You can build your own CSS from the colors grabbed by the plugin, like so:

function jeherve_use_custom_colors( $colors_css, $color, $contrast ) {
    $post_id = get_the_ID();

    $tonesque = get_post_meta( $post_id, '_post_colors', true );
    extract( $tonesque );

    $colors_css = ".post a {
        color: #{$color};
    }";

    return $colors_css;
}
add_filter( 'colorposts_css_output', 'jeherve_use_custom_colors', 10, 3 );

I don’t want Jetpack to choose the base image for me. I want to use my own image

You can do so thanks to the colorposts_image_output filter, like so:

function jeherve_use_custom_image( $the_image ) {
    $the_image = 'https://f.cl.ly/items/3z0o2k2F3w0D0p0k1Y35/cool.gif'; // Whatever image you want, you could grab it from a custom field
    return esc_url( $the_image );
}
add_filter( 'colorposts_image_output', 'jeherve_use_custom_image' );

How do I change the default color that is assigned to posts without an image

You can define a default image that will be used to create a color for all posts that don’t include an image.
To do so, you can use the jetpack_open_graph_image_default filter, like so:

function jeherve_custom_colors_default_img( $the_image ) {
    $the_image = 'https://f.cl.ly/items/3z0o2k2F3w0D0p0k1Y35/cool.gif'; // Whatever image you want, you could grab it from a custom field
    return esc_url( $the_image );
}
add_filter( 'jetpack_open_graph_image_default', 'jeherve_custom_colors_default_img' );

Reviews

Nice!

March 19, 2021

Great plugin, keep this updated frequently.

Complete Waste of Time

net3431 September 3, 2016 2 replies

I installed Jetpack. I installed the “Color Post” plugin. I set the color. It did nothing. I uninstalled the “Color Post” plugin. I uninstalled Jetpack. I feel like I just got scammed.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.6.2

Release Date: August 26, 2022

• Compatibility: update how the plugin relies on functionality provided by the Jetpack plugin, to ensure full compatibility with upcoming versions of the Jetpacak plugin.

1.6.1

Release Date: March 31, 2021

• Internationalization: remove custom translation implementation, WordPress’ language packs handle everything these days.
• Custom contrast value: avoid issues when saving new value.
• Ensure the values saved and displayed are always as expected.

1.6

• Admin interface: add the meta box to all public post types.

1.5.2

• Fix error when the WP REST API plugin wasn’t installed on a site.

1.5.1

• Fix Fatal Error on post update.

1.5

• You can now set your own custom color if you don’t like the one that’s automatically calculated from the post image.
  • You can do so from a color picker in the post and page editor.
  • If you don’t touch the color picker, the plugin keeps using the post image to calculate a post color.
  • As soon as you touch the color picker, the plugin uses that color instead.
• Refactoring to accommodate the new admin interface.
• REST API: Allow defining custom color via the API.

1.4

• Add colors to AMP’s Default template if you use the AMP plugin.

1.3

• Add colors to REST API Post response.

1.2

• Add background color to Chrome for Android.
• Display custom colors on pages as well.

1.1

• Add default fallback image and documentation.

1.0

• Initial release.