10 Best Central Color Palette Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Central Color Palette has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Central Color Palette
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Re-add text underline and justify
Closest match4.7 (26) 50,000+ active installsThis tiny plugin re-adds the Editor text underline & text justify buttons in the WYSIWYG removed in WordPress 4.7.0
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated November 30, 2025.
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5.0 (33) 3,000+ active installsBlock Navigation sidebar panel for the new Block editor.
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since May 19, 2022.
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Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg
4.8 (20) 3,000+ active installsAdditional tools for rich text fields in Gutenberg.
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since February 27, 2019.
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5.0 (41) 1,000+ active installsCodeMirror Blocks is useful for tutorial site where display formatted (highlighted) code block. With support of 100+ Language/Mode and 56 Themes.
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 10,000+, no update since April 9, 2024.
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Qubely – Advanced Gutenberg Blocks
4.0 (66) 7,000+ active installsReadymade gutenberg blocks and sections with rich customization options. Enhance Gutenberg editor with easy UI and functional blocks.
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.0 against 4.9, no update since March 10, 2025.
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Getwid – Gutenberg Blocks
4.7 (115) 50,000+ active installs40+ Gutenberg Blocks, plus multiple pre-made free block templates for the WordPress block editor.
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.9, last updated 6 days ago.
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Gutenberg Blocks Library & Toolkit – Editor Plus
4.8 (38) 6,000+ active installsEditor Plus extends Gutenberg editor with blocks, advanced design controls, typography, icons, Shape Divider, animations and many more features.
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since November 9, 2023.
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4.9 (22) 1,000+ active installsAdd outline around Gutenberg blocks while editing
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 10,000+, last updated February 2, 2026.
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aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder
5.0 (25) 2,000+ active installsaBlocks is a Gutenberg-based website builder with 100+ free flexible blocks and powerful form solutions, allowing you to build any type of form!
Shares the editor, gutenberg tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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The Events Calendar: Category Colors
5.0 (61) 4,000+ active installsAdd event category background colors to The Events Calendar events.
Shares the color tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.9, last updated September 16, 2025.
Switching from Central Color Palette: common questions
What is the best alternative to Central Color Palette?
Re-add text underline and justify is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 50,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Central Color Palette alternative has the most users?
Re-add text underline and justify, with 50,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Central Color Palette alternative is rated highest?
The Events Calendar, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 61 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Central Color Palette alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Central Color Palette score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Central Color Palette on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Re-add text underline and justify is the closest match to Central Color Palette by the data we track, and Re-add text underline and justify has the widest reach with 50,000+ active installs. Getwid shipped the most recent release, on September 1, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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