Thirteen Colors
Thirteen Colors is the easiest way to customize the colors of the Twenty Thirteen theme.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 3
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 10 Jul 2016
- Added
- Aug 2013
- Requires WP
- 3.6
- Tested up to
- WP 4.6.30
- Downloads
- 9,016
Our analysis
AI-assistedThirteen Colors is a WordPress plugin designed to help you customise the colours of the Twenty Thirteen theme. It allows you to easily adjust the default colours through the theme customiser, providing a straightforward way to change the vibrant shades of orange to your preferred colours.
The plugin groups colours by their usage in the base theme, ensuring that you can maintain contrast by using similar intensities. Additionally, it integrates with a tool to generate custom header images in your chosen colours, allowing for a unique look for your site.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for users of the Twenty Thirteen theme who want to customise its colours easily.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Simplifies colour customisation for the Twenty Thirteen theme
- ✓Integrates with a tool for generating custom header images
- ✓Maintains contrast with grouped colour adjustments
- ✓Designed for quick and easy transformations
Where it falls short
- •Only eight customizable colour fields
- •Limited to the Twenty Thirteen theme
- •Last updated in July 2016
Verdict
Thirteen Colors offers a simple solution for colour customisation in the Twenty Thirteen theme, but its limitations and lack of recent updates may affect its long-term usability.
From the developer
Nick Halsey's own description of Thirteen Colors, lightly tidied.
Thirteen Colors is the easiest way to customize the colors of the Twenty Thirteen theme.
Twenty Thirteen is bold, but if you don’t like its vibrant shades of orange you’ll welcome the ability to transform the theme in a matter of minutes. Just activate Thirteen Colors, head over to the theme customizer, and adjust the default colors to the shades of your liking. Things are kept as simple as possible; colors are grouped into similar usages as in the base theme so you don’t need to worry about contrast if you maintain similar intensities for each color.
Header images are designed to be abstract art for Twenty Thirteen, so Thirteen Colors also integrates with a neat tool that can generate a custom header image in your colors. In a matter of minutes, you can transform WordPress’ default theme for 2013 into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that’s visually as unique as your content. All of the little details are taken care of, including the editor styles.
By the way, despite the plugin’s name, there are only eight customizable color fields to streamline the process as much as possible. Twenty Thirteen’s original colors are condensed into these eight blocks, but most of the changes are visually indistinguishable.