WP Color Picker has no appropriate disable / destroy method.

[Aniruddh]

It seems WP Color Picker has no appropriate disable or destroy method.

You can do

colorPicker.wpColorPicker('option','disabled', true);

Nothing happens except it adds wp-wpColorPicker-disabled class. The color picker works like it is in normal state.

The same thing happens with destroy method, you can do

colorPicker.wpColorPicker('destroy');

And nothing happens here, too.

[isabel_brison]

Thanks for the suggestion @Aniruddh !

wpColorPicker is currently in maintenance mode so we're not adding enhancements/new features to it. Instead, we encourage you to try out our new color picker component over in the Gutenberg repo: ​https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/packages/components/src/color-picker

[joyously]

How does that affect all the themes that use it currently?

[alexvorn2]

what I made to make this work, only this code:

$( DIV SELECTOR ).find( '.YOUR INPUT CLASS NAME' ).each( function() {
	var t = $( this );

	t.removeClass( 'wp-color-picker' );
	
	var t_clone = t.clone();

	var t_color_picker = t.parent().parent().parent();
	
	if ( t_color_picker.hasClass( 'wp-picker-container' ) ) {
		t_color_picker.before( t_clone );
		t_color_picker.detach();
	}
} );