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Color Picker

Add a visual color picker input to any string field in your content type.

What this plugin does

The Color Picker plugin transforms standard text input fields into visual color selection interfaces inside the Flotiq content editor. Instead of asking editors to type hex color codes manually — which is error-prone and unintuitive — the plugin renders a full color picker widget in place of the text input, storing the selected color as a hex value in the field. After saving the plugin configuration, the selected string fields in your content type are automatically updated with a regex validation pattern to ensure only valid hex color codes can be saved. This validation is applied at the field level and should be kept intact to maintain data consistency. For design-system-aware teams, the plugin supports uploading a custom JSON color palette. The palette can define named colors (e.g. primary-100, secondary-500) or simple hex arrays, and these swatches replace the open-ended color wheel — ensuring editors always pick from your approved brand colors rather than arbitrary values.

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Visual color selection

Editors pick colors from a visual palette instead of typing hex codes.

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Clean HEX output

Colors are stored as HEX values — ready to use in CSS, design tokens, or any frontend.

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Any string field

Attach the color picker to any existing string field in your content type.

Install in Flotiq

Follow these steps to get the plugin running in your Flotiq account.

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Go to Plugins in the Flotiq sidebar

Select Plugins from the left sidebar in your Flotiq dashboard.

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Enable Color Picker

Click the + icon next to Color picker to install and enable it. The UI will reload.

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Open plugin settings

Click Manage to open the configuration modal.

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Add a config entry

Click Add item under Config. Select the Content Type (e.g. Global settings) and choose the Fields that should become color pickers (e.g. Colors > Hex, Background color, Foreground color). Repeat for each content type.

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Optionally upload a color palette

Click Upload Palette to load a JSON file defining your brand color swatches (simple hex arrays or named color objects).

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Save and use it

Click Save changes. The configured text fields transform into visual color pickers in the content editor, storing hex values automatically.

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