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How to Change the Color of Address Bar in Mobile Browser to Match Your WordPress Site

When you’re building a WordPress site that you want to work well on phones, you probably focus on making sure everything fits on the screen and loads quickly.

But there’s a small detail many people miss: the color of your phone’s address bar (that bar at the top where you type website addresses). Getting this detail right makes your site look more polished and put-together, and it can strengthen your visual brand.

We’ve helped countless WordPress site owners make their websites better for mobile users. One trick we’ve learned? Matching your address bar color to your website’s design makes everything look more professional.

In this guide, we’ll show you the easiest way to change your mobile address bar color to match your WordPress site’s look

Address bar color in mobile browser for WordPress site

Why Match Address Bar Color in Mobile Browser?

Most popular WordPress themes are mobile responsive. This makes your site look great on mobile devices. However, it still looks and feels like a website.

By matching the color of the address bar to your WordPress site, you can provide a native app-like feel. This improves user experience, which ultimately boosts sales and conversions.

Color address bars in mobile browser on Android

A well-chosen address bar color can even make your website look more professional and visually appealing.

Having said that, let’s see how to easily match the address bar on the mobile browser to your WordPress theme.

Note: Please remember that this method currently only works for the Google Chrome web browser on Android devices using Lollipop or newer versions.

How to Change the Color of Address Bar in Mobile Browser to Match Your WordPress Site

You can easily change the address bar color in the mobile browser by adding custom code to your theme or child theme’s header.php file just before the closing </head> tag.

Although, the smallest error may break your website and make it inaccessible.

That is why we recommend using WPCode. After thorough testing, we have concluded that it is the best WordPress code snippets plugin and the safest way to add code to your website.

For details, see our WPCode review.

First, you need to install and activate the WPCode plugin. For detailed instructions, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Note: The WPCode plugin also has a free version that you can use for this tutorial. However, upgrading to the paid plan will give you access to features like code snippet library, conditional logic, and more.

Upon activation, visit the Code Snippets » + Add Snippet page from the WordPress admin sidebar.

Here, click the ‘Use Snippet’ button under the ‘Add Your Custom Code (New Snippet)’ option.

Add

This will take you to the ‘Create Custom Snippet’ page, where you can start by adding a name for the code snippet. This name won’t be shown on the front end and is only for your identification.

Next, select ‘HTML Snippet’ as the code type from the prompt that appears.

Add HTML snippet

Now, all you have to do is copy and paste the following code snippet into the ‘Code Preview’ box:

<meta name="theme-color" content="#ff6600" />

Once you do that, you can add the hex code for the color of your choice next to the content= line in the code.

This color will then be used for your address bar in the mobile browser.

Tip: You can get the HEX value of a color using any image editing software like Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Paint, etc.

Add Hex code

After that, scroll down to the ‘Insertion’ section and choose the ‘Auto Insert’ mode.

This way, the code will automatically be executed on your website upon activation.

Choose the Auto Insert mode

Finally, scroll back to the top and toggle the ‘Inactive’ switch to ‘Active’.

Next, click the ‘Save Snippet’ button to store your settings and execute the code.

Save the code snippet for changing the address bar color in the mobile browser

Bonus Tips to Create a Mobile-Friendly WordPress Site

Other than changing the address bar color, you can also use some other tips to create a mobile-friendly website. This is because search engines like Google prioritize mobile-first indexing.

Plus, mobile searches get 85.8% more impressions than their desktop counterparts, helping you generate more leads.

To create a mobile-friendly site, we recommend using a responsive WordPress theme or a page builder like SeedProd.

For details, see our tutorial on how to create a custom theme in WordPress.

Install theme

You must also use a plugin like WPForms to add forms to your website, such as contact, registration, and login forms.

This is because WPForms comes with 1900+ premade templates, complete spam protection, and is specially optimized for mobile devices, giving mobile visitors a top-notch experience.

WPForms page title and subtitle

Other than that, you should resize large images, use a fast hosting provider, lazy load comments, create a mobile-responsive navigation menu, and so much more.

To learn other tips, see our tutorial on ways to create a mobile-friendly WordPress site.

We hope this article helped you learn how to change the color of the address bar in a mobile browser to match your WordPress site. You may also want to see our beginner’s guide on how to customize colors on your WordPress website and our expert picks for the best page builder plugins for WordPress.

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  1. I love the look of the mobile tab matching the very top header on a website, so I have been looking for a way to do this. I have followed all of these instructions, but nothing changed when I viewed my site on mobile. Any suggestions?

    • Does your phone use dark mode or another styling that overrides the styling set by your site’s theme? That is the most common reason why the styling is not matching what you have set using this method as your phone will take priority over what your site has set.

      Admin

  2. That’s cool. Could you help us changing the navigation bar too? I have seen few of sites implementing that as well.

    • You would want to check with the support for your specific theme first as each theme has it’s own design and settings for their navigation bar.

      Admin

  3. I remember implementing this back then. THings have changed nowadays, the UI now completely looks different from back then.

  4. I have been looking for ways to do this since, I just discovered it in this post. I am surprised that it is just a single line of code that does the magic. I will be applying it to my site because I like the functionality.

  5. Thank you for the instructions. I used them on my website and it works great. Too bad it only works on mobile Chrome.

  6. Thank you for the instructions. I used them on my website, and now the Chrome browser on mobile displays it with the colors of the website’s header. It looks much better. It’s just a pity that, most likely, no other browser besides mobile Chrome supports it.

    • Some other mobile browsers are starting to adopt it so it should hopefully start to be seen more often :)

      Admin

      • Hopefully, more browsers will support it over time, because so far, I have verified this function only on mobile Chrome. It would be amazing if all mobile browsers could do this because it not only makes the web look better, but since not many people use it, it also adds a unique touch. Hopefully, we will see this in more browsers in the future.

        • Exactly! it adds a unique touch to sites and makes them more professional and attractive to visitors. Although Chrome was the first to adopt it, I have now noticed that other browsers, like Vivaldi, are also adopting it. Thanks for your observation.

  7. This seems to have stopped working… I implemented this on my website back in Feb and I just applied it to another one… upon checking the new one doesn’t work and neither does the old! Did something change here in Chrome mobile app?

    • You would want to check with the support for your specific theme that thee is not a different header styling being assigned to those pages.

      Admin

  8. First of all thank you for this great tutorial but now I’m facing a problem the address bar color is not showing on the homepage of my site. It’s perfectly showing on all pages and posts of my site except my homepage.
    What should I do now? Please help!

    • You may want to check with the support for your specific theme that it is not set on the homepage template that could be overriding your settings.

      Admin

  9. Thanks a lot.
    But, be aware that this trick won’t work if the user has enabled dark mode on its phone because it overrides everything else. (Some phones has an option called dark mode)

  10. Another very easy tutorial from your team!

    I would like to add a gradient color to the address bar.

    Is it possible?

  11. Worked great for me on Weebly. Instead of messing with the code just go to settings, and drop it in the section that literally says header code. I’ve done it to two sites, now. One more to go

  12. Simply add this code in your theme or child theme‘s header.php file just before the closing tag.

    but it is not work in one website . why?

  13. Great tip, worked great for my site (as your site always does) do let me know if you get the code for iphones also but either way can’t complain. Thanks!

  14. hello, thanks for this tip but is that working on blogger s templates? if yes how to add it? i ve tried many times but blogger always showing error.

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