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block-editor-colors

Block Editor Colors

Change Gutenberg block editor colors or create new ones.

color palette customize editor color palette gutenberg gutenberg colors
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Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
WordPress 5.9 Breaks it

WordPress 5.9 Breaks it: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
WordPress 5.9 Breaks it Hi, The new wordpress 5.9 update has broken the plugin and we can’t choose colors in the editor.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Error with CoBlocks 3.0.1

Error with CoBlocks 3.0.1: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Error with CoBlocks 3.0.1 After installing CoBlocks Update v3.0.1 I get this error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_current_screen() in /var/www/vhosts/raumfahrer.net/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/coblocks/includes/block-migrate/loader.php:30Stack trace:#0 /var/www/vhosts/raumfahrer.net/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): CoBlocks->{clo
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Doesn’t seem to work with WP 5.8

Doesn’t seem to work with WP 5.8: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
I could see my custom color in the list of colors within block settings.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Conflict with woocommerce

Conflict with woocommerce: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Conflict with woocommerce This plugin conflicts with Woocommerce with Woocommerce Warranty Requests plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
The plugin load the wrong Default colors

The plugin load the wrong Default colors: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
I made from scratch a block theme with a palette (theme.json).
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
CSS override, custom colors doesn’t take effect

CSS override, custom colors doesn’t take effect: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
CSS override, custom colors doesn’t take effect I’m using the Neve theme, and it seems like theres a CSS override for the colors set for buttons (see test-page linked).
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Odd behaviour when selecting text

Odd behaviour when selecting text: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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Odd behaviour when selecting text Since I installed the Block Editor Colors when I select any text anywhere in this website the usual blue highlight colour over a selected text disappears making this action very tricky because I can’t see what I am selecting.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
White text changing to gray

White text changing to gray: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] White text colors are turning gray in block editor.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Conflict with The Events Calendar

Conflict with The Events Calendar: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
Conflict with The Events Calendar Hello, I identified a conflict between Block Editor Colors plugin and The Events Calendar plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Problem with colors

Problem with colors: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Proof Blocked card complete agency visual QA and update safety Evidence linked to opportunity
I edited the color by 1, or other manual colors, and it works.

Competitor Context

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Custom Color Palette for Gutenberg praise owner · intel 55.3 · weakness 46.1
praise owner
stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility security 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
Editor Custom Color Palette praise owner · intel 53.0 · weakness 31.2
praise owner
4 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect gutenberg block layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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complaint can’t change/display default colors support · 2026-06-18T20:03:20+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Block Editor Colors stopped showing default colors after a WordPress update and the user asked whether the plugin was abandoned before a fix shipped.

Evidence: Has this plugin been abandoned?
bugs support editor color display agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed Editor preview no longer works in WordPress 7.0 support · 2026-06-02T20:44:17+00:00 · medium severity · customize

WordPress 7 iframe changes broke preview colors for overwritten palette entries, and the vendor later released a compatible plugin version.

Evidence: as of WordPress 7.0, the editor preview for colours you’ve overwritten in the palette no longer work
bugs compatibility quality editor color preview agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Huge help. (5 stars) review · 2025-04-23T15:13:16+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Huge help.: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Huge help.
support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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praise Excellent Plugin! (5 stars) review · 2024-08-25T11:18:45+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Excellent Plugin!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Excellent Plugin!
quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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neutral Wrong upload folder support · 2024-06-13T21:51:11+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Wrong upload folder: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: We determined this was caused by the WP_Query in CustomColorsService.php set_colors.
bugs compatibility support form agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed White text changing to gray support · 2023-11-16T17:53:46+00:00 · medium severity · customize

White text changing to gray: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] White text colors are turning gray in block editor.
bugs missing feature support easy agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed Error with CoBlocks 3.0.1 support · 2023-03-28T16:57:46+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Error with CoBlocks 3.0.1: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error with CoBlocks 3.0.1 After installing CoBlocks Update v3.0.1 I get this error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_current_screen() in /var/www/vhosts/raumfahrer.net/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/coblocks/includes/block-migrate/loader.php:30Stack trace:#0 /var/www/vhosts/raumfahrer.net/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): CoBlocks->{clo
bugs compatibility missing feature support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Works great (4 stars) review · 2023-03-14T09:05:54+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Works great: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works great Using this with Getwid, it works out of the box.
reliable quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed The plugin load the wrong Default colors support · 2022-12-31T15:26:49+00:00 · medium severity · customize

The plugin load the wrong Default colors: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I made from scratch a block theme with a palette (theme.json).
bugs compatibility missing feature support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed Move to Appearance menu in Dashboard support · 2022-11-25T10:30:40+00:00 · low severity · customize

Move to Appearance menu in Dashboard: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Move to Appearance menu in Dashboard It would make much more sense if Colors was under the Appearance section instead of Settings.
missing feature support value agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise It helps – but shouldn’t be needed (4 stars) review · 2022-06-29T11:44:54+00:00 · medium severity · customize

It helps – but shouldn’t be needed: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It helps – but shouldn’t be needed This plugin has helped change a default colour in Gutenberg, but I am having to go into every page and select the text colour manually as it hasn’t happened automatically.
support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Great! Gradients soon? (5 stars) review · 2022-05-20T06:31:00+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Great! Gradients soon?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great!
support performance quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed WordPress 5.9 Breaks it support · 2022-01-28T03:58:31+00:00 · high severity · customize

WordPress 5.9 Breaks it: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WordPress 5.9 Breaks it Hi, The new wordpress 5.9 update has broken the plugin and we can’t choose colors in the editor.
security bugs compatibility missing feature agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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praise Works Great! (5 stars) review · 2021-12-01T16:50:47+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Works Great!: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works Great!
reliable quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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neutral Will Block Editor Colors Fix the Guideline Violation support · 2021-11-22T20:35:25+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Will Block Editor Colors Fix the Guideline Violation: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Will Block Editor Colors Fix the Guideline Violation Will the Block Editor Colors development team address this issue?
bugs agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed Feature request: create css variables from color slug support · 2021-11-08T10:13:32+00:00 · low severity · customize

Feature request: create css variables from color slug: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Feature request: create css variables from color slug Hi, It would be really helpful (from development view) to have all custom colors also available in css variables.
missing feature support value agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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neutral Plugin no longer available support · 2021-10-02T15:53:22+00:00 · low severity · customize

Plugin no longer available: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It would really help to know the reasons.
support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed CSS override, custom colors doesn’t take effect support · 2021-08-03T13:47:59+00:00 · medium severity · customize

CSS override, custom colors doesn’t take effect: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: CSS override, custom colors doesn’t take effect I’m using the Neve theme, and it seems like theres a CSS override for the colors set for buttons (see test-page linked).
bugs compatibility missing feature support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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mixed Doesn’t seem to work with WP 5.8 support · 2021-07-23T15:59:09+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Doesn’t seem to work with WP 5.8: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I could see my custom color in the list of colors within block settings.
bugs compatibility missing feature support agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source plugin
praise Helped me alot (5 stars) review · 2021-05-29T18:36:19+00:00 · medium severity · customize

Helped me alot: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Helped me alot I was stuck with the colours my theme provide, I was gonna look for a way to add a custom colour button, not the editor but this plugin saved me all the stress by giving me a panel to add more default colours than I could think of Totally love it!
compatibility support value quality agency visual QA and update safety Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect customize layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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