A Better Tag Cloud
I was pretty annoyed with the default tag cloud widget. It does a lot of things wrong, like inconsistent HTML markup and hardcoded font sizes. So I wanted to write my own. Digging through the code I found out that the wordpress wp_tag_cloud() function is pretty powerful. In fact, it could do almost everyhing I want. So I abandoned my plan to rewrite everything from scratch and added a nice admin interface to my tag cloud widget.
This plugin makes the options for wp_tag_cloud() available to a tag cloud widget and a shortcode. This means that you can easily choose things like font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. See the wp_tag_cloud page for what the settings can do.
Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically at the same time. It is also possible to add a counter to the tags, so that your visitors can see how many posts are associated with each tag. The plugin also adds a sensible CSS class to every tag.
Here’s a demo of the new shortcode:
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Usage
The easiest way to use this plugin is to drag the widget into one of your sidebars.
There is as well the shortcode [nktagcloud]. Examples:
- [nktagcloud] This displays the tag cloud as configured on the options page.
- [nktagcloud single=yes] This does the same but shows only the tags of the current post.
- [nktagcloud post_id=1234] Displays the tags of the post identified by post_id.
- [nktagcloud separator=”" categories=no] Remove separator and categories.
Using the tag cloud in your theme
You can call the function nktagcloud_shortcode() from your theme to get the same output as from the shortcode. Example:
if ( function_exists( 'nktagcloud_shortcode' ) ) { echo nktagcloud_shortcode( null ); }
There’s also the nk_wp_tag_cloud() function. You can use it to generate a tag cloud with a different configuration than the plugin’s one. It accepts the same parameters as wp_tag_cloud(). Example:
if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) { echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' ); }
Additonal parameters (all strings):
- single: Only tags of the current post (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
- categories: Inlude categories in the cloud (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
- replace: Convert blanks to non-breaking spaces (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
- post_id: Display only tags of the specified post (post ID)
- mincount: Show only tags that have been used at least so many times
- separator: Tag separator
- inject_count: Add a counter to the tag (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
- inject_count_outside: Add the counter outside of the tag hyperlink (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
- nofollow: Add the noffow attribute to the tags in the cloud (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
Downloads are at the plugin’s WordPress.org page.
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This entry was written by nicolas, posted on 3. November 2008, filed under Content Management and tagged better tag cloud, configurable tag cloud, flexible tag cloud, improved tag cloud, tag cloud, WordPress, WordPress plugin. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
I am Nicolas Kuttler, a web developer, system administrator and IT consultant from France, currently living in Germany. 
nicolas: Hi Joey, not sure what you mean. The only thing that has a background is the success + error message. You...
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Kar: Wordpress error log shows nothing that could be related to this problem.
I like the options on the widget, but when I try to change the number of tags shown in the widget options, it won’t change. When I change it and click the “Update Settings” button or the “Change” button, neither one will work, and it resets itself to 0. I managed to get the number of tags I want showing by editing the number in the php code, but I thought you might like to know it’s not working for me in the widget options.
Oh, sorry, also, that was happening with version 0.1.0 yesterday and still today when I upgraded to 0.2.0 and I’m using WordPress 2.6.3
If that helps.
Please try the 0.2.1 release. I think it’s fixed now. Thanks for reporting.
That is some snappy updating! Working great for us now. Thanks for the great plugin.
I like it, it’s a perfect widget.
Just one question, is there a paid version to remove the credit link?
Hi Chris, it’s already possible to remove the link.
Hi, thanks for the great plugin! Just one question .. is there a way to have 2 widgets. I want to display it on two different sidebars.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Hallo Klaus, it’s not possible at the moment. I’ll have to modify the widget. Will look into it, maybe this week.
It turns out that the documentation for doing a multi instance widget is really lousy. I did look into it but it’s going to take more time.
Hello,
Is it possible to have the widget sort the most popular tags in alphabetical order? Thanks!
Hi gestroud, I think there’s a flaw in your logic: you either sort a list alphabetically or by popularity. You could give one criterion precedence over the other, but that doesn’t make a lot of sense imo.
Btw, you didn’t define popularity, what do you mean by that word?
Maybe you could write down an example sorting to make it clear what you mean.
I installed the tag cloud and it works grat, but I don’t think any of my custom changes made a difference. what am i missing. also, can the color be changed.
Patrick, looks fine to me on your site. The color can be changed through css.
Hey Nicolas, I would like to know if in the future a feature to add post count next to the tags will be implemented. I’m currently using Configurable Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress. Furthermore, about gestrouds comment concerning sorting most popular tags in alphabetical order. I have also wanted this feature.
e.g. If you have 4 tags and they are labeled as: student, classes, books, courses. Let say you have 10 posts that contain the student tag and the remaining 3 tags both have an equal number of 7 posts.
The order for most popular would be: student, classes, books and courses.
The order for most popular sorted alphabetically would be: student, books, classes and courses.
My current tags plugin sorts by most popular, but for tags with the same post count the tags are listed from what I can tell to be randomly.
In the future, do you think you can implement such features perhaps?
Ok, I’m starting to see the need for such a feature. Would require re-implementing wp_tag_cloud function (copy & paste) and adding some sorting. Doesn’t sound too hard. Stay tuned for an update.
Hello,
you have made a new update and now the Tag Cluod ist absolutly wrong ro see in the IE.
The Tags are all in one line around the complett Website …..
But only in the IE…when i take the FF is all okay…whats up there?
It’s probably a CSS issue, but I can’t verify that unless you enable the widget on your site. The modifications I did should not change anything about the CSS.
Maybe you changed the remove css option?
Hey Nicolas, I just checked back for updates and installed the latest version of your better tag cloud widget. I have found the following:
On my blog, I have you widget set to “list” format, however, the tags are still displayed as a “flat” format. I have cleared browsers cache etc, but still the same results.
Furthermore, may I suggest the font size be entered in manually in a box rather than selected from a list? This would allow for manual font sizes which would include decimal point fonts.
Hi, your first issue seems to be fixed. About the font sizes… don’t know. I’m not sure why It’s a dropdown. Will look into it when I have some time.
My tags are still displaying as a “flat” format even though I have “list” selected as the format in the widget settings.
No they are not, and what makes you think your current display is flat? How would list look different? Look at the HTML, it’s clearly a list.
I disabled the plug-in but the credit link is still on all of my pages. Can you tell me how to uninstall the link?
The plugin is still active, I just checked your site.
very useful, thanks.
None of the changes I make through the widget are affecting the tag cloud on my page. I have tried refreshing and clearing the cache.
The tag cloud widget isn’t enabled on your site. Please check the widgets settings page.
Thanks for this wonderful Plugin buddy…
Hi nicolas,
Do you know if it’s possible to have tags that are one-word hyperlinks to my other site’s web pages.
Thanks,
Kerry
Hi — Thanks for the widget. I have a question: Do you know why on our site the tags are underlined? I’d like it to look like yours (without them). Thanks.
Adding
li#better-tag-cloud a { text-decoration: none; }to your site’s css file should do that.
The settings for “Number of tags to show” (currently set to 20)and “Force tags with multiple words on one line?” (currently set to Yes) seem to be ignored.
That’s odd, both work for me. Which version of the plugin and wordpress do you use? Do you maybe use some cache?
0.5.0 Of The Plugin
2.8 Of WordPress
No Caching Plugins
Error at widget %BEG_OF_TITLE% Tags %END_OF_TITLE%
How to fix it… my blog gone
Please add plugin and wordpress version you’re using. If your blog is gone, just disable the plugin or remove it’s directory from your plugin folder if you can’t access the admin interface.
can you add the “exclude” parameter to the widjet form?
Oh, right, that has been on my TODO forever. Will look into it soon, thanks for reminding.
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Hi,
I am using your plug-in with thesis theme. I want to create a list instead of a linear display, but the ‘list’ format doesn’t seem to be working. What am I missing. Here is the test page. www. eduweave .org/blog
Hi sheela, are you maybe talking about my tag cloud plugin? The list/flat setting only changes the HTML, how that is displayed is a CSS issue. Please try the remove CSS setting.
I had your template on another blog too http://JohnZajaros. com and everything was fine until I added Google analytics to the footer.php in the theme editor. I have it on the http://TheQuestRevealed. com and all is well. But when I added Google Analytics to the footer.php right above the like it said to, the johnzajaros.com theme added a second “search this blog” box on the header for some reason. TheQuestRevealed.com is fine. I have deleted the theme at johnzajaros.com and reloaded it but the search box comes back at the top, that second “Search on this blog” box. I can’t get rid of it. I went into the header code and think I see where the code is duplicated but I am not a code person, so I left it alone. But I really like your theme and would like to use it on all of my blogs. But I need to fix this problem first. Any ideas? I hope I was clear enough.
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It took me forever to find this plugin, but it was worth the wait! Thanks so much!
I was just wondering how to make one little change. I want the post count to be after the tag link. My category links are formatted that way, and it’s driving me crazy to have them different from the tags!
Do you mean that the counter is not a link? Yes, I think that would be better too.
Yes. My category list only includes the category name in the link; the post count comes after it. The tag list includes the name and count in the link.
I looked in your plugin’s code to see if I could do it myself, but it’s too advanced for me, I’m afraid.
ETA: Just logged in to wp-admin and see you have added this to the new version. Thanks so much!
You’re welcome!
I’ve tried upgrading to the new version, but when I click the ‘Automatically Install’ button, the file will not unzip properly. I’m using WP version 2.8.4…but, my hosting company did not have PhP 5.0 on their server at the time of my initial install. I now have it; but, I’m wondering if the unzip functionality is now defunct.
Any ideas?
Do you get an error message? If so please paste it here. You could create a file that contains <php phpinfo();, call it info.php, put it somewhere on your server and open it in your browser to check if zip is available. Is my plugin the only one you have problems with?
i was thinking of an option for your tag cloud:
adding existing categories to tag list… (just a simple checkbox)
it exist in many other tag plugin and i thind it usefull.
maybe it depends on site hierarchy/organisation but it helps for mine.
thanx in advance and congrats for your good job
I’ll have to look into this. No idea how much work it is.
In the meantime you should check your WordPress settings, it looks like you configured 192.168.25.254 as your home URL, which basically breaks your blog for everybody not on your local network. See this page.
I really like your format best and the options you’ve included in your plugin. yugz already asked, but could you add support for categories? I’d also like to be able to use multiple instances of the widget — one for categories and one for tags. THANK YOU!
This one does categories if the source will help you :
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configurable-tag-cloud-widget/
Thanks for the link. I wasn’t aware that this plugin does categories and will have a look at it. Multiple instances should be possible with the new 2.8 widget API, but I haven’t looked into it yet. Last time I looked into it (pre 2.8) it was a total mess.
Thank You for today’s upgrade! I left a topic in Wordpress – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/319718 . I’m having problems excluding a category and tag with the same name, slug, and term ID.
I just upgraded the wordpress plugin 0.8.1.2. it shows as 0.8.1 and the widget title is not displayed. Any ideas? It worked with the previous version.
Thanks for the report! A fixed version has been released.
Thanks for your swift reply. Can’t seem to find the new version though. I only see 0.8.1.2, that is the one giving my this issue. I upgraded from the following source: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nktagcloud.0.8.1.2.zip Any clues?
Yes, it takes a few minutes before the uploads get released, it’s online now: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nktagcloud.0.8.2.zip
Thank you Nicolas. Installed it and everything is just fine again!
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Oh noes!
I installed the newer version and it doesn’t display anything :O
OK found the issue – previously the plugin was automatically displaying the results, now it returns them – neded to specify “echo nk_wp_tag_cloud(”
All fixed
Right, I changed the function. I wasn’t aware that people call them directly.
Will have to keep this in mind in future plugin upgrades, thanks for the report!
I am preparing a new release and the function’s behavior will change again, for the better I hope
The function will completely ignore all plugin settings, but you will be able to to configure everything from your nk_wp_tag_cloud() call. I just need to update the docs.
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Hi, thank you for that wonderful widget. I very much like the possibility to add categories to the cloud. The only thing to mention is that the exclude list should also apply to category names and not just tags. Don’t you agree … ?
Hi Max, absolutely! I’m aware that this doesn’t work, but it’s a low priority for me, sorry about that. It will take some time until I look into it. There are also problems if you have tags and categories with the same name.
Version 0.8.4.1 appears to have introduced another error – it now doesn’t work!!
Did an auto upgrade and it failed at line 19 of nktagcloud.php….
Issues?
(re: my previous post)
Is the plugin WP 2.8.5 compatible?
Shall I try another upgrade of the plugin (I’ve just restored an old version 0.4.0)
That’s very odd. Line 19 uses the register_sidebar_widget() which is in wordpress core. The plugin is definitely compatible with 2.8.5 (i use it on this site). If you try again and get an error again would you please paste the whole error if there is more?
Nicholas
Thanks – just tried again and it’s fine now. Don’t know what happened originally.
I was actually very surprised how quickly and pain-free the upgrade to WP 2.8.5 was – seconds compared to over an hour to back my site up beforehand!
Hello Nicolas,
thank you for the plugin. Ability to customize tag cloud is a nice feature.
I was wondering if there’s a possibility to show only those tags which have been used more than X times, for example, if I have lots of tags which are used only once (or twice), I would like to not show them in the cloud.
I was looking into code, but couldn’t figure out if it’s easily hackable or not.
Thank you,
Kaspars.
Hi Kaspars, that would be easy to add, I’ve added it to my todo. In the meantime you can simply limit the total number of tags. I think I can get that feature into the next release.
Hi Kaspars, today’s 0.8.5 release includes this feature and other improvements.
Hi, Nicolas
A big thank you for the update! You just made my day
Kaspars
I just launched a new site ohaskin.com and installed your tag cloud for the first time. I am now going back and adding tags to all of my PAGES (posts were already done) but I am not seeing any change in the tag cloud. Does it only use tags from posts and not pages? Is there a way for it to include pages? Thanks!
Hello MattHart,
are you using a plugin to create page tags? To my knowledge WordPress doesn’t support that out of the box. So yes, the plugin only uses tags from posts.
Nicolas
I am complete newbie to Wordpress/themes/plug ins etc.
I am just setting up my site and cannot work out how I can configure your plug in. Can you help and point me to where I can find the configuration option. I am running a theme and have been looking in both that dashboard, the main WP dashboard and the Widgets section.
Thanks in advance for your help and your plug in.
Chris
Hi Chris, the options page is under Settings -> Better Tag Cloud. The widget itself links to the settings page too. Maybe you looked at the “Tag Cloud” widget, this plugin’s widget is called “Better Tag Cloud”.
Hey,
I’m just passing by to thank you for this pluggin. I’m currently using it on my blog http://www.logisticadescomplicada .com and it helped me fixing an issue I had before!
Cheers!
I really like this plugin. I just updated to the latest version of this plug-in, but it is not working properly (and I haven’t touched the code). It is properly displaying the categories used on the posts, but the link is not working (shows http://sitename.com/?tag= for every category). Is this something you’ve encountered before?
Hello Eric, that’s strange. I have tested it on my development server (wp 2.8.5) and it works with and without permalinks for me. You could try to deactivate your other plugins. If the tag cloud works again, add them back one by one.
I can’t get the css of this to show up on the page!
Hi Phil, looks fine on your site. You could have deactivated the CSS in the plugin options, or your template doesn’t have a wp_head call.
Hey there I’ve been having a problem with the plug-in. I created my Wordpress Theme using Artisteer and installed Wordpress on my web host.
I’ve installed the Better Tag plug-in from: REMOVED and installed it successfully. I activated the plug-in and am able to access the configuration settings but don’t know how to make the tags display in different sizes??
Is there a problem with my theme?
Here is a link to my website: REMOVED
Your help would be much appreciated
Hi Kiley, it doesn’t look like you use my widget at all. You have to drag it into your sidebar on the widgets page. The tags will all have the same size if the number of articles associated with a tag are equal.
Works great… easy to use!!! Thanks for this plugin!
Nice plugin, but one small issue (the same one Eric has).
Having looked into your code I have fixed the issue (category links will not be built from the function get_tag_link):
On line 143 in inc/page.php change
$link = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
to
if ( isset($tag->cat_ID) )
$link = get_category_link( $tag->term_id );
else
$link = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
Hi Dave, you’re right! I will fix this asap.
Ok, I have added your fix and made a 0.8.9 release which should be available for download in a few minutes. I’m really a little puzzled how this bug made it into an official release..
Hi Nicolas,
Nice plugins you have written.
Would it be possible to add a function to include/exclude categories? That would be really nice!
Hi Georg, I’ll have to look into this. Might take some time though.
PS: There are a number of strings that are not yet internationalized. To wit http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/422/1366134344.png
These strings are internationalized. Where did you get the translation from? It looks like the translator didn’t use the pot file that comes with the plugin.
If anybody localizes the plugin I’d like to include their work in the official release. Users shouldn’t have to download separate translation files.
Hello Nicolas,
I tried your plugin for one of my site. I have configured it properly but the tags are not visible in the Better Tag Cloud section on the site.Also the when I give one tag in the Included Tags section of configuration page it comes on the site but not all the tags I used in my posts.
Please suggest what m doing wrong.
Thanks
Hi Rahul, looks fine to me. If you give tags to include they are the only tags that will be shown, that is expected behaviour.
Hi Nicolas,
Yes that i accept but can’t this plugin automatically include all the tags posted in the posts/pages, same as the default tag cloud of word press? Should i need insert every tags in the Included Tags section in the configuration page ?
Please suggest.
Thanks
Simply don’t use the include tags option at all.
Hello Nicolas,
Sorry to bother you again, but i think still m doing something wrong as still m not getting any tags visible on my site.
I configured your plugin with empty Exclude/Include tags text box but still no tags coming on the site.Wordpress default tag cloud shows all the tags.
Pls chk right bottom of my site for the tag clouds.
Do i need to do some thing during the new/edit posts ?
pls suugest.
Thanks
Can you post a screenshot of the admin page? Maybe it has to do with your theme, no idea, you have invalid html everywhere.
Fantastic! I was really unhappy with the default Tag Cloud where I had no control over the font size. Very ugly. Installed yours and a quick glance at the options and I have presentable tags. Haven’t had time to play with all of your features, but sure glad you did this! Keep up the good work. Thanks!!!
Tu dois utiliser windos toi non?
you should not be a mac user Right?
I use the universal operating system mostly.
Thanks for the plug-in, Nicolas. I’d love to get mine looking as good as your cloud at the top of this page. But as a coding numbskull, I can’t see how to do it. Any chance of some simple instructions?
PS… Can you tell me how I get rid of the title tags if I don’t want a title?
Hey David, I forgot to reply to you earlier, sorry. The next release will probably contain some code to generate such colors automatically, I’ll just have to find a little time to think about it.
nice plugin. used in my blog. tks
good plugin. but i like the flash one better.
Well, to each his own I guess
Btw, your link to the flash one didn’t work, so I removed it.
Hey, I’m having trouble with your plugin. I uninstalled it, but for some reason a text link to your homepage appears on my main page.
How do I get rid of it?
I see it’s gone. Actually, it’s impossible that the links stays once the plugin is uninstalled.
I took the widget off my site, but haven’t uninstalled from plugins b/c might use later when I’ve finished transferring content. To get the link to your site off my site, must the plugin be deleted? I’d rather give credit in the site footer regardless.
I deactivated the plugin… that took the link to your site off my site.
The easiest way is to simply disable the link in the plugin preferences.
Hello,
I translated Better Tag Cloud into French.
The translation is available here
http://liseweb.fr/BLOG/better-tag-cloud-afficher-un-nuage-de-mots-cles-avec-wordpress-2-9
and here
http://liseweb.fr/BLOG/wordpress/plugins/les-plugins-que-jai-traduits-en-francais
MfG
Lise
This is great, thank you Lise! I will include your translation in the next release.
Merci beaucoup!
Hey Nicolas great plugin by the way!
I just have one problem.
I installed the plug-in to one of my sites but the tag cloud looks quite squashed (vertically). Is there some coding/configuration that I need to do to format the tag cloud like the one above and below?
Thanks in advance
Just one other question is how do you configure the tags to display in different colours?
Many thanks!
Hi Kiley, those things can all be changed through CSS. I’ve been working on something to generate colors etc dynamically, but it’s not ready yet.
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Great plugin. I would like to know how to make my tags look in different colors like your demo above.
Thank you
I will add colored tags in the next release, stay tuned!
I have added an option to automatically color the tags. It’s very basic and may or may not work depending on your theme’s CSS styles. I’m uploading the 0.8.12 release right now.
If you don’t like the colors you can have a look at css/page.css in the plugin’s directory and create your own CSS styles.
I’d love to add a generator where users can pick colors but I’m just too busy atm.
Hey and thanks for a great plugin. I’m using it on several blogs, for example http://www.parafovea.com.
I was going to ask about excluding categories by id number but I see that there are already several requests for this. So one more vote for that feature!
Hi, this is already possible, just use the exclude field.
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With the latest update the tag cloud ALWAYS displays in list format regardless of the admin panel setting…Is this just me or is anyone else having an issue?
You are right, I just uploaded a fix that should resolve this issue. Thanks for the report!
Thanks for the fix. All is good!
The problem is not fixed at all. I just uploaded the latest 8.12.2 while the same issue like STeve described still exist….
I see no admin panel settings like the previous version
the files : css/page.css and css/admin.css shows “not activated”, others are activated
Hi Michael, I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean.
I have the same problem, the tags show up as a list and not as a cloud.
page.css file is missing in CSS folder…???
http://s61.radikal.ru/i172/1001/57/e65c2c508f6f.jpg
You are right, thanks for reporting this. I’m just uploading a fix.
I would like to see a log file on your site that lists the changes in each release that I can review before downloading the new release. You already have this info in the readme.txt file AFTER I download. How about making this available BEFORE I download? Thanks.
The changelog is available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/changelog/
Ok, but is that link shown the next time I do an automatic upgrade from within WP? I guess I will have to pay closer attention. Thanks.
Yeah, it’s under “View Version xxx details”
hi nocolas,
great plugin. but one problem. changing font size and units doesn’t change the tag cloud display on the page. eg: changed to 8/20 px. still: 8/22 pt visible on the blog. even tried hardcoding it in your plugin. no effect…help!
cheers
ff-webdesigner
Looks fine to me on the page you linked. I did remove all links from your comment though… if you really have problems I suggest http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html
Love the plugin, but would it be possible to change it so that ‘span class=”nktagcloud_counter”‘ and ‘span class=”nktagcloud-separator”‘ tags don’t show up in thre source code if you don’t use counters/separators?
Hi Carolin, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’m just uploading the fix.
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What am I doing wrong? I install the plugin, configure it, drag it to my sidebar and it still looks plain. What am I missing?
It looks like every tag on your blog is only used once. Thus all tags have the same size.
Hi Nicolas,
Just wanted to say thank you for this plug in. It was so easy to install and use right off the bat and it’s much prettier than the default one
Nice plugin.
I don’t use widgets. This plug-in has a shortcode for an insert in sidebar?
Hello Komarik, no, shortcodes can’t be used in the sidebar. But you can use something like
if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( "post_id=1234" );
}
This works with the new 0.10.0 release, not sure about older versions.
Hi Nicolas,
Better Tag Cloud – a great plugin, thanks a lot!
I have a bilingual website with English & Bulgarian versions.
I run on 2.9.1 and use your latest version of your plugin (updated yesterday)
It’s all fine in the English version but in the Bulgarian, I cannot make the tags work. They are there but once you click on them it’s 404 Not found.
Could you please have a look and tell me what’s wrong: http://sharemykitchen.com/bg/
I desparately need the tags to be working on both languages.
Thanks in advance.
Sergey
Hi Sergey,
can you tell me which plugin you use to build your site? I guess I’m not applying some filter to the output that your plugin depends on.
Hi Nicolas, thanks for the reply.
The plugin is the Better Tag Cloud and the theme is Atahualpa 3.4.1 if that’s what you ask. I hope this is helpful.
No Sergey, I need to know which multilingual plugin you use. The one that lets you have a blog in more than one language.
Ok, I’ve got you now..
It’s WPML Multilingual CMS
How can I use automatic colors for the tag cloud in the wp_tag_cloud() function?
Hi Pavel, that’s not possible. I suggest you add the style definitions from the plugin to your theme. Or simply enabling them on the options page could work as well, not sure about that.
Hi Nicolas, I just want to add some more info to my problem, in case this might be of help to you.
I have noticed that search engines do not index my Bulgarian posts (my default language is English)but only the pages in Bulgarian – it’s kind of weird.
So it’s like my tags and posts in Bulgarian are not working, and I can’t see the realation between the two.
The problem still stays the same, none to do with cascading css. The inline styles coming out of better tag cloud are not as set in the plugin admin. Search for albert kreuz blog. in the source of better tag cloud you will see e.g. font-size: 22pt;. But in the admin the setup is 6 to 14 px. No changes are being used… mail me for access to the blog if you’d like to see it yourself!
I don’t know what to say. This code works perfectly for me. Please use the contact form to send me a login to that blog and I’ll have a look.
One day I’ll add an option to remove the hardcoded fontsizes, but it’s a low priority as it’s how WordPress does the tag cloud by default anyway and it can be overridden with an !important rule.
can i make the tag list in your plug in like this
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,
J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,
S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
or
2010,2009,2008,2007,
2006,2005,2004,2003,
2002,2001
That should be no problem with one of the order options.
My last attempt to comment didn’t seem to work, so I am trying again.
Great plugin, but I for me the “Show only tags that have been used at least so many times” option doesn’t seem to work. I have it set to 3 and tags that appear only once are in the tag cloud. My blog is here.
Hi, you don’t seem to be using my plugin, you need to add it to your sidebar.
I am definitely using the plugin at Stubborn Mule. I just turned on the colouring option to confirm it.
Right, you’re using it now. And you’re absolutely right that the feature doesn’t work, I’ve just released a fixed version 0.10.0.1. Thanks for reporting!
I tried ur plug in on my site (http://www.pathofysiologie.nl/) but it didnt work, cuz I dont have posts, all my content is in pages. is it possible to make a change in the code so the tag cloud works for page contents too?
I think that there are plugins that add tags to pages, but I haven’t used one yet. WordPress itself doesn’t tag pages, unfortunately.
if any one knows where to find such a plugin ( adding tags for pages) please tell me. I have been searching for a long time.
Update works! Thanks for the quick response.
Is it possible to justifie the tags in the Tag-Cloud like your comment-texts?
so that there is no free space on the right side?
hopefully you understand what i mean
Hi Dave! You can probably get that effect by using the “flat” display format (iirc) and setting the CSS styles to text-align :justify.
Sorry for posting this questing a second time today :-/
I changed it to “flat” and also changed one entry in page.css (first one) but that didnt help…
Hi!
I would like to ask.
How can i embed the cloud just like you did it on this page.
Thanks and regards
Just put [nktagcloud] somewhere into a post or page, that should do.
Thanks for the quick answer but its not working for me, i don’t know why.
(I linked my site)
Hmmmmm, that’s odd. No idea. To debug WordPress problems the usual first steps are:
1. Disable all other plugins
2. Use the default theme
3. See if problem persists.
nice widget… Thanks for it..
hi
need the php code for direct theme add.
thanks
The cloud can be produced by calling nk_wp_tag_cloud();
Please see inc/page.php for parameter documentation.
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Thanks for this nice widget. Very helpful.
Dankeschön!
This really is an excellent plugin and I now have it installed on two websites. It is simple to set up and does exactly what I need it to with no problems.
What really helps is that you respond to everyone’s questions – it’s what ultimately made me decide to use your plugin and not someone else’s. Thanks.
Thank you!
First: thank you for the plug-in!
Second: I’d love to give props where due, but seems to be competing with the them copyright at the bottom of the page – any thoughts?
Third: EXCUSE the novice question (I am new to WP and all its features), but the only tags present in the cloud are from the categories. Do I simply just not have enough entries at this point to have more populating the tag cloud?
Theme developers often don’t pay attention to styling the wp_footer links. Simply disable it, I don’t mind
If I remember correctly post tags are always shown. Do you have post tags?
Hi,
There is something I don´t understand. The plug-in is installed and activated. But where do the tag-choices appear?
Gunilla
Hello Gunilla,
I’m not sure what you mean? There is a widget in the widget section: Better Tag Cloud. You can choose which tags to display on the plugin settings page. This happens by ID though, so it’s not like there are checkboxes or something like that.
Nicolas,
Thanks for this plug-in!
I have installed it on my site blog and want to display a “flat” version of the tag cloud instead of the list version. However, when showing flat version, the tags start on the same row as the title of the widget. Is there a way to fix this?
Other than this small display issue, this is a great plug-in.
rankabove.com/blog/
Thanks,
Kalman
Hm, I would guess including the default css styles of the plugin should fix the issue. If not, maybe your theme wasn’t coded properly. For example, there’s no H7 tag..
Hi. This is an excellent plugin! I have a question though. The theme that is being used for this blog doesn’t use widgets to include info into the sidebar, it is an R-sidebar.php file. Will your plugin work with this theme? If so how do I make it work? Thanks!!
Hello Kate, sure, the plugin can work without widgets. There are some notes on this page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/
It might be easier to widgetize your theme though, as described on
http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/18/see-how-easy-it-is-to-widgetize-wordpress-themes/
for example.
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Great Plugin!
Unfortunately it seems to have a bug: When I try the sort option “both” I’ll receive instead of the widget the following error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare compare_both() (previously declared in /HIDDEN/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nktagcloud/inc/page.php:304) in /HIDDEN/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nktagcloud/inc/page.php on line 304
Hm, that error doesn’t make any sense. I’ve seen similar errors with PHP when using opcode cachers like APC, xcache etc. Try disabling them if you use any.
But I should rename the function anyway, the name is too generic. I’ll release an update in a few minutes.
Hm, I don’t use such a plugin
Anyway it works as long as I don’t sort this way
I just activated your plugin. It’s way better than the default tag widget. Thanks for this contribution.
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Hi,
First off, thanks for the great widget!
I’m using it with the Arthemia theme and everything works except the random font size, it stays with the standard font designated by the theme. I’ve browsed through the css and didn’t see where to edit it. Have you had any experience with this theme or would you be able to assist?
Thanks kindly,
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for the great plug-in!
I need to add some left padding to the tag list. I looked in Firebug but don’t see a div with a class or ID surrounding the list. I can’t apply my style to better-tag-cloud or or widget-nktagcloud because that would mess up the widget title styling. Is there anyway that I can wrap the tag list in a div with an ID or class so I can style it?
.widget-nktagcloud ul { foo }
I think I got it. I need to set the format to list and then style the list with list-style: none and display: inline and I can finally use your original suggestion to style the overall list.
Oh, right, the flat display. Sounds like you found a good solution. I’m not sure why there is a ‘flat’ display anyway, it really doesn’t make sense. A tag list is always a list and should use the correct markup. There’s CSS for styling.
Thanks for a good work! I suppose, I’ve detected one small bug – “inject_count” parameter doesn’t work, when calling it from nk_wp_tag_cloud() callback. Looks like it was accidentally forgotten during one of the last upgrades.
Hi Wiseman! Hm, that’s odd, it seems to work for me in the shortcode and the widget, which both call nk_wp_tag_cloud(). Maybe a typo? Can you give a code example that doesn’t work?
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Hey Nicolas and thank you for the plugin.
I want my tags to appear neax to each other, on the same line, and not that every tag occupy a complete line (unless it is mutliple words of course)
I set it to Flat, and to List, but it is the same. How can I make them appear one next to each other, and not every single one, on every single line?
Thanx
Hi Mouad, sounds like a CSS issue. Are you using
display: block;maybe?Hey Nicolas and thank you for replying.
I am not quite sure where I might find “display:block;” if I want to search for it. But I used Firebug Firefox extension, and highlighted the tags sidebar widget, and I found no “display:block;” within its properties. I also added the property “display” and tried every option of it, including inline, and table, but the tags remained one in each line.
I presume it is related to the plugin itself.
Not at all. Check the link itself, the parent list element, their styles etc.
I didnt quite understand what you meant. Please help me in this. And if there is a way to make the tags appear side by side in the original tags widget built into WP, pleast let me know about it. Because all I wanted is to make them appear side by side, since placing each on a single line occupies a big space which I can save.
Mouad, these thing can all be changed through CSS. Unfortunately I don’t have the time right now to help you with this.
Okay, thank you. after a long time of testing, I figured that I can find:
.sidebar1 ul li a:link, .sidebar1 ul li a:visited {
and change the display property to:
display:-moz-grid-group;
You could simply tell me that, and I am done
But its okay now, and thank you again.
-moz-grid-group doesn’t sound like it will work in all browsers, you should test that. I’m sorry I can’t give CSS support here, but there are enough places where you can get help with such stuff.
If you’re interested and willing to pay I provide professional services, please check my services page.
I know there is a lot of options… But I need at least the title of the widget to be configurable right on the widget config screen, to localization of that text (via WPML).
I have no idea what wpml is. The title is printed through
echo apply_filters( 'the_title', $config['title'] );WPML (http://wpml.org/) is a plugin that make Wordpress into a multilingual site. It provides a whole framework and admin interfaces to create content in several languages. It several admin pages for translating contents dinamically, and one of those scans for texts entered in widgets, so the widget appears translated in the language the user is viewing the site. Since no text is entered in the widget admin, no text is recognized for translation.
But you can enter the title on the settings page! If wpml hooks into the widgets page somehow to manipulate titles that’s seriously broken.
I vaguely remember working with wpml, don’t you use something like [en]english[/en][de]deutsch[/de]? That should work on the plugin settings page without any problems.
I’m using Wordpress with WPML to create a Spanish/English website, so I put “[es]Etiquetas[/es][en]Tags[/en]” as the widget title in Better Tag Cloud’s admin page, and on both languages it shows exactly that text. WPML is not broken, it appears to be that widget text entered in widget admin is easily recognized (even with WPML unaware plugins). But for text entered by other means (the admin interface) must register the string with WPML and retrieve it later, and all that work must be done by the plugin developer. For that I think is easier to move the title to the widget admin and let WPML recognize it, than modify the plugin to be WPML aware… By the way, thanks for fast-replying!
I think you should file a bug against wpml for not checking stuff that runs through the the_title filter. But I’ll consider adding a few setting on the widget page.
Is it possible to have the better tag cloud appear in my sidebar and my footer widget at the same time?
Thanks and looking to hear from you.
Hi Tan, no that’s not possible. Yet. I will add that feature in a future release. Right now it’s missing to keep the plugin compatible with older WordPress releases.
Nice work Nicolas! I now have a better tag cloud for a 10 minute investment of time (and a small PayPal gratuity). 2 minutes to download and setup and the rest to find the answers to my questions. Now all I need to do is figure out how to get the underlines to go away (selecting none for decorations did not do it). Thanks very much!
Hi Dave, thank you! I assume you mean in the widget?
Try to put the following code in your theme’s style.css:
.widget_nktagcloud a {
text-decoration: none !important;
}
I hope this works.
Hi Nicholas, can you help me with asmall modification?
I have images associated with many of my tags and I want to show them in a cloud, or list instead of the tag words.
at the moment a tag is shown like
href="http://example.com/tag/mytag"and I would need to change this tohref="http://example.com/wp-content/tagdir/mytag.gif"Is that possible and where would I make that change?
Hi Richard, to be honest, I have no idea what you mean. It sounds like you are using some custom code? Some other tag plugin? Or do you use my plugin? It doesn’t do tag-image relations. Sounds like a nice feature though.
Hi Nicolas,
I’m Domicio Neto and I’m from Brazil.
I have one question for you.
In my site, I have the plugin but I don’t want to display Tag and yes only Category.
How do it? I don’t have idea.
Thank you so much and congratulations for plugin.
Hi Domicio, that’s not possible at the moment. I think the feature could be added though, I’ll look into it for a future release.
Hi Nicolas,
I believe this is very important for SEO. You should think about.
Thank You
Hi Nicholas,
I installed your tag cloud plugin but it’s not showing up. I feel I’m missing a basic step in the installation. Although I risk looking like an idiot, I have to ask how to get this working…do I have to change the code on one of the Wordpress pages?
Thanks,
Hi Phil, you shouldn’t have to change anything. There is a widget (if your theme is widget-ready) and the shortcode, as described in the readme.txt. Good luck!
Hi again Nicolas,
So, if I use the shortcode within a blog post, it works just fine. But I’m trying to get it on my right-column where we display advertisements, etc. I can’t figure out how to get the cloud to work on the column. travelmamas com
Any help is greatly appreciated….
Hi Phil, there are various ways to include the tag cloud on your site, they are all described on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/
Hi. Yuu have to go the Appearance > Widgets in your admin interface and move the Better Tag Cloud widget into your sidebar. Then you will see it on your blog.
Thanks! I’m testing this, and it seems to be working well.
Thanks for the plugin. I works like a treat.
Assuming I don’t want to put the widget into the sidebar, what is the code I can use in the sidebar.php file.
is it. I tried using – , but doesn’t work.
Any clue?
Thanks for your help.
Hi Technology Blog, there are various ways to include the tag cloud on your site, they are all described on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/
I tried your plug-in, however, it doesn’t gel with my theme. After deactivating it, I noticed that the plug-in jacked the built-in tags link that appears under each post.
The tags themselves are still present, but the link to the Tags page is broken.
Disregard, I made the corrections.
Hi Scott, did you find out why the links were broken? Was it caused by my plugin?
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Great plugin! We’re using it on selected blogs at the PSOUG.org site (http://psoug.org/blogs/).
I would so love to use this plugin – it looks so cool – but now that I’ve installed it on wordpress and activated it I don’t know what to do next. Nothing seems to be happening at all and I don’t know what “Add the widget in your dashboard’s Design section and configure it as you like” means exactly. My dashboard doesn’t nave a section named design.
You can manage widgets on the Appearance->Widgets page. There should be a widget named Better Tag Cloud.
great plugin, but I think I prefer like if min color in #aaaaaa and max color in #000000 ?
Are u know my purpose?
and what Tag separator should I fill if I want to give white space?
Please answer.. thanks..
You can change these two things by using your own CSS.
okay, thanks
Hi Nicolas
I wanted to explore your plugin when calling from php code but I does nothing. My code is like if ( function_exists( ‘nk_wp_tag_cloud’ ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( ‘single=yes&separator= – &categories=no’ );
echo ‘exists’;}
else
{echo ‘doesnt’;
} I can see the ‘exists’ but nothing else. If I use the standard wp_tag_cloud function it displays the tag cloug. Any idea?
thank you
R
single=yesonly shows tags of the current post, so no tags on pages, the blog page etc.Hi Nicolas
cool. That solved my issue.
Can I make your nk_wp_tag_cloud function to use all the settings from admin panel?
Thank you
R
Yes, you can do that. Right now you have to look in
inc/page.phpfor parameters that aren’t described here. I guess I should add them to the readme.I meant if I can set up all settings in admin area of wp and then just call nk_wp_tag_cloud and it would use these values. So I would have to read any docs at all
R
You can use
nktagcloud_the_cloud()for that.I used
echo nktagcloud_the_cloud();but I recieved Warning: Missing argument 1 for nktagcloud_the_cloud(), called in …can I fix that? Thank you. R
Right, sorry, nktagcloud_the_cloud is the wrong function. Please see below for the new documentation. I’ll make a plugin update if this helps you.
I want to use two tag clouds. One that will exclude a single (Quote) tag group and another that will only include the Quote tag group. Looking at the code directly according the book it shouldn’t take much. Biggest problem is finding where the tag_cloud command is to edit it.
Ideas appreciated. I’ve just started working with WordPress so I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer was in front of my face…
See the comment below with the updated docs. Use
nk_wp_tag_cloud()for the second cloud.I had to look at the code again and I’ve updated the plugin’s readme to contain this text:
= Using the tag cloud in your theme =
You can call the function `nktagcloud_shortcode()` from your theme to get the same output as from the shortcode.
There’s also the `nk_wp_tag_cloud()` function. You can use it to generate a tag cloud with a different configuration than the plugin’s one. It accepts the same parameters as http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud. Example:
if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' );
}
Additonal parameters (all strings):
* single: Only tags of the current post (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
* categories: Inlude categories in the cloud (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
* replace: Convert blanks to non-breaking spaces (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
* post_id: Display only tags of the specified post (post ID)
* mincount: Show only tags that have been used at least so many times
* separator: Tag separator
* inject_count: Add a counter to the tag (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
* inject_count_outside: Add the counter outside of the tag hyperlink (‘Yes’, ‘No’)
hi Nicolas
I tried echo nktagcloud_shortcode(); and it still gives me the ‘Warning: Missing argument 1 for nktagcloud_shortcode(), called in…’ but it also displays the tag cloud
Thank you
R
oh right, it’s
nktagcloud_shortcode( null ). That should do.great!!! works now. Thank you so much for your help and great plugin. Radek
what Tag separator should I fill if I want to give white space?
Thanks
that should be done with CSS
Hi Nicolas,
Just wanted to thank you for the great plugin, for the amazing amount of work that you do with WordPress that many of us benefit from, and to offer a small suggestion.
I couldn’t help but notice that rather silly forum thread on WordPress.org re: ‘Inserting promotional links into the page’.
Here is my suggestion – Why don’t you put the link in the actual plugin widget? Something tastefully discrete yet present. I would have left the links in if they were not placed in the footer (and I appreciate you providing the option to easily remove them).
Why did I remove the links from the footers? Well I’m using a WPMU Installation with a bazillion different themes. Footer content formatting seems to be a rather neglected area amongst theme-builders…not that I’m complaining…it’s just that that often the themes are great but the footer content is a mess and I have to spend time modifying each theme. By placing your promo links in the footer, you are pretty much at the mercy of themes as to how it presents your links…and often where…
Anyway, thanks again.
Cheers
Stephen G
Hey Stephen, I like your suggestion and will implement it. Thanks!
Btw, I will remove the links for the default install in a future release. Wordpress.org has changed their rules for plugins. Once it was enough to be GPL2, but now there’s rule X, unpublished rule Y etc…
I may have to think about which features can’t be used without enabling the link. Something I wanted to avoid. I wanted to give users total control, but apparently that’s not good enough.
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Is there a way to add “nofollow” to the cloud?
There is in the upcoming 0.11.0 release.
By the way…. why on earth do you want nofollow on the tag cloud?
Hi, I installed the plug-in and note one small error. When you add a “separator” you are putting the separator after the last word, e.g.:
tag1, tag2, last_tag,
Can you not insert the separator after the final tag in your next update, please!
Hi Scott, that can be configured in the new 0.11.1 release, thanks for the report!
I didn’t make it the default though, as some people might rely on the last separator being there.
Please, can you tell me how to put php “A Better Tag Cloud” inside my archive template?
I was trying to put this:
but without success.
Thanks!
Hm, you didn’t paste any code
Did you look into the readme.txt?
This code:
http://www .animabonsai.com/00BRISI-function.html
I was try to put here:
http://www .animabonsai.com/archive/
Please see http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nktagcloud/
Great a widget. Very thanks.
I like the plugin a lot. It has the possibillities I missed in the original. Still, I had to tweak a little bit.
In inc/page.php, I’ve modified $tagsize_int to be round($tagsize), and added a new var $tagsize_round as round($tagsize,1) to be used in style font-size. This makes colorization a little better, and the font-sizes doesn’t end up with five decimals.
By the way, what scheme did you use for the color stepping in page.css? I’d like to widen the size range, but want to continue the color pattern.
Also, colorization only works successfully when using “pt”-sizing. Is there by any chance an easy fix you could come up with to name the css class numbering differently from the size?
Hi Espen, thanks for the report! I’ll look into the issues you described asap.
I used some online CSS gradient generator for the colors, can’t remember which one. You should probably modify the colors so that they match your blog’s style.
There’s such thing as a gradient generator? I’ll look into that. Thanks
Hello,
i’d like to know if it’s possible to center all the tags ? I did it for the sidebar but taht affect all the widget, i’d like that only the tags f my cloud would be in the center of the sidebar.
Thanx a lot
You can center the tag cloud itself. I’m not sure, I think it has the class
widget_nktagcloud. Or just check your site’s sourceI cannot see the array option in the dropdown. Only list and flat. Do I need to change it in the editor?
Thanks – great plugin.
Hi Brandon, I’m not sure what you mean?
You are not the first!
I want to know if I can make the tags show up in different sizes (in the “array” format, right?). Just wondering how to do that.
There is no array format. What are you trying to do?
I’m trying to have the tags show up in differing font sizes. Pardon my ignorance.
Well you have to change the settings for “Smallest font size” etc. The are on the plugin’s options page.
Thanks for the plugin, Nicolas.
I don’t know if anyone’s pointed this out, but on the changelog page, a lot of the dates are 2009-mm-dd when they should be 2010.
So even though you updated the plugin last month, people that look at the changelog may think that it hasn’t been updated in a year!
Hi Ashwan, thanks for spotting this! I guess that’s what I get for copy and paste without using my brain
newest version shreddered my design, any idea why this is so?
No. A link to your site would help though.
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I am using your Better Tag Cloud plugin. But there is one thing that i really miss: How can i justify the tag cloud?
The default text-style is “right” and i dont know how to change that…
Thanks for the plugin anyway!!
Thanks for this great plugin!!! I won’t miss it! I have a question: since the latest update I have the new and the old widget and the old setting (configuration) page too. That is confusing… why are there 2 different setting pages? I liked the config page of the old widget more than the new drop down config of the new widget. It gives me a better overview.
Yeah, I know this isn’t perfect. I’m not sure yet how I will handle this in the future. Maybe the very first widget instance could be on the settings page, but that could be rather confusing. I’ll have to test a few things when I have the time. Thanks for the feedback.
Nevertheless it’s the best tag cloud widget – you did a great job. Thumbs up!
Thanks!
perfectly cool…install it right way.
I’m glad you like it
I like it, itâ
Tolles Widget, Spende kommt vielen Dank für die gute Arbeit.
Great widget i will donate. Thanks for the work you did.
Dirk