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Kai2810
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Hi, I have been using Ultimate Tag Warrior 3.14159265 for the past month, and have never managed to get the tag cloud to show up in the sidebar.

My blog's here. http://www.internetmarketing4noobs.com

I am using the Mandigo 1.9 theme, with Sidebar Widgets installed.

I have tried using ceejayoz's tag cloud plugin for UTW,
http://ceejayoz.com/wordpress-plugins/tag-cloud/#footnote-1-84
but that did not work either.

I have also tried coping the following line into my sidebar.php,
<?php UTW_ShowWeightedTagSet("sizedtagcloud") ?>
that did not work too.

Ran out of ideas...anyone here know how to get the tag cloud for UTW working?

Thanks in advance!
Kai2810
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Anyone?

Been trying to crack this problem for weeks now at the forums/comments over at both Christine's neato.co.nz and ceejayoz.com, but no one replied.

:(
Samuel B
moderator
Posted 5 years ago #

I've been using this tag cloud widget w/UTW - works great.
http://ceejayoz.com/wordpress-plugins/tag-cloud/
Kai2810
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Yes Samboll, I have already tried ceejayoz's plugin too...but the annoying thing is...I placed it in the sidebar widget

and nothing shows up!

Do I need to set anything in the options for UTW? Do I need to copy any code into anyone of the theme files for it to work?
Samuel B
moderator
Posted 5 years ago #

It must be a theme problem. I'm not familiar with Mandingo, but maybe if you contact the author of the theme he can diagnose it quickly.
Kai2810
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Argh...can't be that unlucky.

The previous theme I used, Ocean Mist v1.1, also had this problem, so I switched to Mandigo hoping it may help to solve the problem.

Besides, I have visited their site...their site seems to be in Latin or some sort, can't read their language...

Sam, for your side did you do anything to the settings for UTW?
Samuel B
moderator
Posted 5 years ago #

Figures it's going to be a pain.
Honestly, mine is just the very basic configuration.

A great troubleshooing resource is in the WP admin, though.
Go to the page where you configure UTW and click on the "Local Help" link near the top left of page.
I read that after installing UTW and it's really detailed.
Also, UTW has forums - you might try there.
Kai2810
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

I have also tried the forums at

http://www.neato.co.nz/forum/,

but no one replied...the forum seems to be deserted these days, and Christine is no where to be found. Just look at my post I made there.

http://www.neato.co.nz/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1600&page=1#Item_1

close to 2 weeks now...and no one replied. Also take a look at the other posts lately, not much replies too save for 1 or 2.

*shakes head...*
Sparrowhawk
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Anaconda Theme. WP 2.0 series.

Everything Kai2810 has tried and then some.

In a nutshell, I get tags in my posts, but no tag cloud. Either via widget or new page.
holly2000
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Does it work if you put the tag cloud in your index.php somewhere inside the loop?
Sparrowhawk
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Putting inside the loop did not work either, but I see Christine posted March 2nd, 2007 on the Neato Home page.

"p.s. there will be a release of next generation UTW sometime soon…" :-)
Faern
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

I'm wondering if you are aware that you must distribute some files. I was having a similar issue with the UTW code, and then finally I stopped reading the instructions, and started following the graphical map.

These were some of the commands I had to run to get it correctly populated (I expanded in a directory at the same level as wordpress, then copied them over to avoid collisions)

cp -rf widgets/* ../widgets/

This directory didn't exist in my wordpress version (latest and greatest) so I had to create it:

mkdir ../widgets/sciptaculous

wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/widgets.1.0.zip
unzip widgets.1.0.zip
cp widgets.1.0/scriptaculous/* ../widgets/sciptaculous/

cp widgets.1.0/classic/* ../../themes/classic/
cp widgets.1.0/classic/* ../../themes/default/

Here is where I found the graphical map of the UTW setup which allowed me to see where I was missing some files.

http://automattic.com/code/widgets/use

Be advised, I had to expand the old version of wordpress, then expand the new version of wordpress and copy it over the old. I replaced files where it asked me, and in doing so I somehow got a bunch of files not present in the newest installation.

Hopefully this did not confuse you more. But I did get the tag cloud working, so I know I did something right in this mess.

These were the elements I was missing, creating this structure in addition to the rest, and killing my browser temp files did the trick:

- themes
- classic
| functions.php (optional)
| sidebar.php (optional)
- default
| functions.php (optional)
| sidebar.php (optional)
endgamepr
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

I'm having the exact same problem. I tried adding the tag cloud to my sidebar and I tried creating a page with the cloud on it. Nothing shows up at all. I also tried the tag cloud widget mentioned here. Nada. I'm using the WP-Andreas01 theme.

Here's the blog: http://endgamepr.com/wordpress/
endgamepr
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Good news. I solved the problem on my blog. Hopefully it will work for you too. Check out this link:

http://www.neato.co.nz/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1582&page=1#CommentBody_1719
dougdo
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

I used a different tag cloud generator, but I posted very detailed step-by-step install instructions on my blog at http://www.dougdo.com/2007/04/11/making-a-tag-cloud-on-a-wordpress-blog/

You can see how it looks at either http://www.dougdo.com or http://www.puertovallartasatellite.com/news

Doug.
Mayallbewell
Member
Posted 5 years ago #
I got the tag cloud to work in the sidebar, although I am not a developer, nor do I know php. So I'm sure the code and method I used are ugly and I make no claim to the quality of this solution.

First, I went into the presentation section of the admin, clicked on theme editor, then clicked on my main index template and deleted the following code:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

Then I replaced it with this:
```
<div id="sidebar">

<?php UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedtagcloud","","25") ?>
</div>
```
If you want other sidebar elements, you'll have to go in and add the code for them before or after the tag cloud code, depending on what order you want them. For me, this included recent posts and categories. So the entire sidebar section looked like this:
```
<div id="sidebar">

<?php UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedtagcloud","","25") ?>
<br></br>
<br></br>

<h2><?php _e('Latest Articles'); ?></h2><?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=10'); ?>
<br></br>
<br></br>
<h2><?php _e('Categories:'); ?></h2><?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hide_empty=1&children=1&hierarchical=1'); ?>

    	</div> 
```
The breaks <br></br> add space between the sidebar elements so they don't get scrunched together. You can add as many as you want to space it out.
broom9
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

I made a small widget for displaying UTW tag cloud in sidebar.

http://blog.broom9.com/?page_id=349

It works well on my blog, WordPress 2.1.3 and UTW 3.14159265
Z_Everson
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Broom9's widget worked great! Thanks!
Z_Everson
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

Let me ask a follow up question:

Is it possible to limit the number of tags that appear? As is, I have a long list running down my sidebar. I'd like to cap it at 10. I know the UTW code allows for limiting the number of tags, but I'm not sure how to implement it in the widget.

Thanks!
Chris_K
Member
Posted 5 years ago #

I know the UTW code allows for limiting the number of tags

Look for that UTW function in the widget's php file. Edit and save. :-)
broom9
Member
Posted 4 years ago #

Thank you guys
I have added that function to this widget, now it can limit the number of tags and sort tags by weight or alphabetic (Dan Davis provided this patch, thanks )

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