A Better Tag Cloud

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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 can do everyhing I want besides the font sizes.

So I abandoned my plan to rewrite everything from scratch and simply added a nice admin interface to my tag cloud widget.

See the wp_tag_cloud page for what the settings can do. The reason I wrote this widget was so that I can specify the tag cloud format. My CSS and JavaScript depends on proper <ul><li><ul> structure.

Here’s a demo of the new shortcode:

Update 0.8.3: I18N, german and italian versions available.

Update 0.6.1: The include and exclude parameters can now be passed to the widget.

Update 0.4.0: As suggested I have added a sorting by post count and name at the same time feature. It is also possible to add a post count next to the tags. I had to move the configuration to a settings page, it’s just too much text to configure everything from the widget screen now.

nktagcloud

Downloads are at the plugin’s WordPress.org page.

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176 Comments

  • Posted by The Local Landing on 2008/11/06 at 21:18. Reply

    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.

  • Posted by The Local Landing on 2008/11/06 at 21:20. Reply

    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. :)

    • Posted by nicolas on 2008/11/07 at 11:18. Reply

      Please try the 0.2.1 release. I think it’s fixed now. Thanks for reporting.

  • Posted by The Local Landing on 2008/11/12 at 22:08. Reply

    That is some snappy updating! Working great for us now. Thanks for the great plugin.

  • Posted by Chris on 2008/11/19 at 16:42. Reply

    I like it, it’s a perfect widget.

    Just one question, is there a paid version to remove the credit link?

    • Posted by nicolas on 2008/11/19 at 19:20. Reply

      Hi Chris, it’s already possible to remove the link.

  • Posted by Klaus on 2009/02/08 at 15:52. Reply

    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!

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/02/12 at 22:32. Reply

      Hallo Klaus, it’s not possible at the moment. I’ll have to modify the widget. Will look into it, maybe this week.

      • Posted by nicolas on 2009/02/15 at 09:44. Reply

        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.

  • Posted by gestroud on 2009/02/14 at 01:14. Reply

    Hello,

    Is it possible to have the widget sort the most popular tags in alphabetical order? Thanks!

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/02/14 at 20:19. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by patrick on 2009/02/27 at 23:51. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/02/28 at 14:46. Reply

      Patrick, looks fine to me on your site. The color can be changed through css.

  • Posted by Triton Bloom on 2009/03/08 at 21:05. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/03/09 at 16:59. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Adryan on 2009/03/10 at 16:09. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/03/10 at 21:02. Reply

      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?

  • Posted by Triton Bloom on 2009/03/12 at 07:24. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/03/12 at 19:16. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Triton Bloom on 2009/03/12 at 20:37. Reply

    My tags are still displaying as a “flat” format even though I have “list” selected as the format in the widget settings.

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/03/13 at 13:38. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Chris on 2009/04/10 at 15:42. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/04/17 at 10:58. Reply

      The plugin is still active, I just checked your site.

  • Posted by solar on 2009/04/13 at 12:14. Reply

    very useful, thanks.

  • Posted by Rick on 2009/04/22 at 21:23. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/04/24 at 18:51. Reply

      The tag cloud widget isn’t enabled on your site. Please check the widgets settings page.

  • Posted by binoy devan on 2009/04/25 at 08:39. Reply

    Thanks for this wonderful Plugin buddy…

  • Posted by Kerry on 2009/04/25 at 11:51. Reply

    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

  • Posted by colleen on 2009/06/03 at 04:03. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/06/03 at 07:01. Reply

      Adding

      li#better-tag-cloud a { text-decoration: none; }

      to your site’s css file should do that.

  • Posted by Jeffrey on 2009/06/11 at 22:59. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/06/11 at 23:21. Reply

      That’s odd, both work for me. Which version of the plugin and wordpress do you use? Do you maybe use some cache?

      • Posted by Jeffrey on 2009/06/12 at 00:06. Reply

        0.5.0 Of The Plugin
        2.8 Of WordPress
        No Caching Plugins

  • Posted by sc on 2009/06/12 at 21:41. Reply

    Error at widget %BEG_OF_TITLE% Tags %END_OF_TITLE%

    How to fix it… my blog gone

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/06/14 at 11:36. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by rami on 2009/06/16 at 23:55. Reply

    can you add the “exclude” parameter to the widjet form?

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/06/17 at 11:31. Reply

      Oh, right, that has been on my TODO forever. Will look into it soon, thanks for reminding.

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  • Posted by sheela on 2009/08/29 at 02:35. Reply

    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

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/08/29 at 09:32. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by John Zajaros on 2009/08/30 at 21:40. Reply

    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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    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/08/31 at 14:21. Reply

      Looks fine to me. I guess you fixed it somehow?

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  • Posted by Maya on 2009/09/12 at 01:42. Reply

    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!

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/09/14 at 01:49. Reply

      Do you mean that the counter is not a link? Yes, I think that would be better too.

      • Posted by Maya on 2009/09/17 at 05:45. Reply

        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!

        • Posted by nicolas on 2009/09/17 at 14:00. Reply

          You’re welcome!

  • Posted by SedonaCyberLink on 2009/09/13 at 19:36. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/09/14 at 01:47. Reply

      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?

  • Posted by yugz on 2009/09/15 at 20:11. Reply

    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

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/09/16 at 13:55. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Cheryl F. (The Lucky Ladybug) on 2009/10/01 at 19:56. Reply

    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/

    • Posted by nicolas on 2009/10/02 at 21:02. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Cheryl F. (The Lucky Ladybug) on 2009/10/10 at 18:55. Reply

    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.

  • Posted by cornel on 2009/10/14 at 19:34. Reply

    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.

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  • Posted by Joss on 2009/10/18 at 13:33. Reply

    Oh noes!

    I installed the newer version and it doesn’t display anything :O

  • Posted by Joss on 2009/10/18 at 13:58. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/10/18 at 16:44. Reply

      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!

      • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/18 at 21:52. Reply

        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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  • Posted by Max on 2009/10/20 at 01:14. Reply

    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 … ?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/10/20 at 11:53. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Steve Baldock on 2009/10/21 at 11:52. Reply

    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?

  • Posted by Steve Baldock on 2009/10/21 at 15:05. Reply

    (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)

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/10/21 at 15:34. Reply

      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?

      • Posted by Steve Baldock on 2009/10/23 at 02:34. Reply

        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!

  • Posted by Kaspars on 2009/10/23 at 18:36. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/10/24 at 02:03. Reply

      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.

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/10/26 at 12:50. Reply

      Hi Kaspars, today’s 0.8.5 release includes this feature and other improvements.

      • Posted by Kaspars on 2009/10/26 at 15:36. Reply

        Hi, Nicolas

        A big thank you for the update! You just made my day :)

        Kaspars

  • Posted by MattHart on 2009/10/28 at 19:06. Reply

    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!

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/10/29 at 10:51. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Chris King on 2009/11/04 at 12:40. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/04 at 16:06. Reply

      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”.

  • Posted by Leandro on 2009/11/04 at 23:09. Reply

    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!

  • Posted by Eric on 2009/11/07 at 06:33. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/07 at 10:44. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Phil on 2009/11/09 at 21:51. Reply

    I can’t get the css of this to show up on the page!

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/10 at 12:11. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Kiley on 2009/11/10 at 06:18. Reply

    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 :-)

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/10 at 14:30. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Jake - DesignerFied on 2009/11/11 at 02:57. Reply

    Works great… easy to use!!! Thanks for this plugin!

  • Posted by Dave on 2009/11/13 at 13:38. Reply

    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 );

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/13 at 14:44. Reply

      Hi Dave, you’re right! I will fix this asap.

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/13 at 14:59. Reply

      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..

  • Posted by GeorgWP on 2009/11/18 at 23:16. Reply

    Hi Nicolas,

    Nice plugins you have written.

    Would it be possible to add a function to include/exclude categories? That would be really nice!

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/19 at 01:20. Reply

      Hi Georg, I’ll have to look into this. Might take some time though.

  • Posted by GeorgWP on 2009/11/18 at 23:34. Reply

    PS: There are a number of strings that are not yet internationalized. To wit http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/422/1366134344.png

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/19 at 01:23. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Rahul on 2009/11/19 at 16:34. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/19 at 17:45. Reply

      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.

      • Posted by Rahul on 2009/11/20 at 08:18. Reply

        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

        • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/20 at 10:20. Reply

          Simply don’t use the include tags option at all.

          • Posted by Rahul on 2009/11/20 at 11:21. Reply

            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

            • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/11/20 at 11:32. Reply

              Can you post a screenshot of the admin page? Maybe it has to do with your theme, no idea, you have invalid html everywhere.

  • Posted by Roger Due on 2009/12/03 at 22:55. Reply

    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!!!

  • Posted by Riffen on 2009/12/08 at 15:58. Reply

    Tu dois utiliser windos toi non?
    you should not be a mac user Right?

  • Posted by David on 2009/12/10 at 12:23. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/12/22 at 00:59. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Prenotazione Traghetti on 2009/12/16 at 19:36. Reply

    nice plugin. used in my blog. tks

  • Posted by anyhoo on 2009/12/21 at 23:53. Reply

    good plugin. but i like the flash one better.

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/12/22 at 00:56. Reply

      Well, to each his own I guess :-D

      Btw, your link to the flash one didn’t work, so I removed it.

  • Posted by Ivan. on 2009/12/22 at 17:46. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/12/22 at 20:00. Reply

      I see it’s gone. Actually, it’s impossible that the links stays once the plugin is uninstalled. :-)

      • Posted by Lisa Shara on 2009/12/28 at 07:44. Reply

        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.

        • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/12/28 at 08:29. Reply

          The easiest way is to simply disable the link in the plugin preferences.

  • Posted by Lise on 2009/12/27 at 21:09. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/12/27 at 22:34. Reply

      This is great, thank you Lise! I will include your translation in the next release.

      Merci beaucoup!

  • Posted by Kiley on 2009/12/29 at 01:59. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Kiley on 2009/12/29 at 02:08. Reply

      Just one other question is how do you configure the tags to display in different colours?

      Many thanks!

      • Posted by Nicolas on 2009/12/29 at 09:04. Reply

        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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  • Posted by Ramiro on 2010/01/03 at 02:13. Reply

    Great plugin. I would like to know how to make my tags look in different colors like your demo above.

    Thank you

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/03 at 19:47. Reply

      I will add colored tags in the next release, stay tuned!

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/04 at 15:44. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by typofi on 2010/01/04 at 10:04. Reply

    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!

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/04 at 10:13. Reply

      Hi, this is already possible, just use the exclude field.

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  • Posted by Steve on 2010/01/04 at 21:17. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/04 at 21:49. Reply

      You are right, I just uploaded a fix that should resolve this issue. Thanks for the report!

      • Posted by Steve on 2010/01/06 at 02:06. Reply

        Thanks for the fix. All is good!

      • Posted by Michael on 2010/01/08 at 05:25. Reply

        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

        • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/08 at 10:51. Reply

          Hi Michael, I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean.

          • Posted by Matt on 2010/01/09 at 05:00. Reply

            I have the same problem, the tags show up as a list and not as a cloud. :(

  • Posted by Roman on 2010/01/06 at 04:12. Reply

    page.css file is missing in CSS folder…???

    http://s61.radikal.ru/i172/1001/57/e65c2c508f6f.jpg

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/06 at 12:27. Reply

      You are right, thanks for reporting this. I’m just uploading a fix.

  • Posted by Roger Due on 2010/01/06 at 23:10. Reply

    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.

  • Posted by ff-webdesigner on 2010/01/08 at 19:30. Reply

    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

  • Posted by Carolin on 2010/01/09 at 01:30. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/09 at 09:06. Reply

      Hi Carolin, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’m just uploading the fix.

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  • Posted by Skye on 2010/01/17 at 01:28. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/17 at 08:49. Reply

      It looks like every tag on your blog is only used once. Thus all tags have the same size.

  • Posted by Jess on 2010/01/18 at 08:27. Reply

    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 :)

  • Posted by Komarik on 2010/01/19 at 10:28. Reply

    Nice plugin.
    I don’t use widgets. This plug-in has a shortcode for an insert in sidebar?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/19 at 15:50. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Sergey on 2010/01/19 at 16:45. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/19 at 17:33. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Sergey on 2010/01/19 at 18:04. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/19 at 18:53. Reply

      No Sergey, I need to know which multilingual plugin you use. The one that lets you have a blog in more than one language.

  • Posted by Sergey on 2010/01/19 at 19:09. Reply

    Ok, I’ve got you now..

    It’s WPML Multilingual CMS

  • Posted by Pavel on 2010/01/20 at 16:29. Reply

    How can I use automatic colors for the tag cloud in the wp_tag_cloud() function?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/20 at 16:45. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by Sergey on 2010/01/21 at 09:33. Reply

    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.

  • Posted by ff-webdesigner on 2010/01/22 at 12:23. Reply

    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!

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/22 at 22:48. Reply

      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.

  • Posted by MALIK on 2010/01/30 at 01:12. Reply

    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

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/30 at 16:22. Reply

      That should be no problem with one of the order options.

  • Posted by Stubborn Mule on 2010/01/30 at 23:24. Reply

    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.

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/31 at 15:20. Reply

      Hi, you don’t seem to be using my plugin, you need to add it to your sidebar.

      • Posted by Stubborn Mule on 2010/01/31 at 22:47. Reply

        I am definitely using the plugin at Stubborn Mule. I just turned on the colouring option to confirm it.

        • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/02/01 at 04:08. Reply

          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!

  • Posted by Muad on 2010/01/31 at 06:36. Reply

    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?

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/01/31 at 15:19. Reply

      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.

      • Posted by Muad on 2010/01/31 at 17:35. Reply

        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.

  • Posted by Stubborn Mule on 2010/02/01 at 04:31. Reply

    Update works! Thanks for the quick response.

  • Posted by Dave on 2010/02/03 at 17:15. Reply

    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 :)

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/02/04 at 01:17. Reply

      Hi Dave! You can probably get that effect by using the “flat” display format (iirc) and setting the CSS styles to text-align :justify.

  • Posted by kisfoka on 2010/02/04 at 00:05. Reply

    Hi!

    I would like to ask.
    How can i embed the cloud just like you did it on this page.

    Thanks and regards

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/02/04 at 01:16. Reply

      Just put [nktagcloud] somewhere into a post or page, that should do.

      • Posted by kisfoka on 2010/02/04 at 01:49. Reply

        Thanks for the quick answer but its not working for me, i don’t know why.
        (I linked my site)

        • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/02/04 at 08:48. Reply

          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.

  • Posted by faraz on 2010/02/04 at 09:51. Reply

    nice widget… Thanks for it..

  • Posted by Tino on 2010/02/07 at 19:04. Reply

    hi

    need the php code for direct theme add.

    thanks

    • Posted by Nicolas on 2010/02/08 at 14:28. Reply

      The cloud can be produced by calling nk_wp_tag_cloud();

      Please see inc/page.php for parameter documentation.

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